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Rebecca
Rebecca,the name given (in allusion to Gen. 24: 60) to the leader, in woman's attire, of the rioters who demolished tollgates in south Wales in 1843 – 4 ;
a character in Scott's Ivanhoe ;
a novel by D. du Maurier (see below).
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