Taj, in Agra (East India), the mausoleum built by Shah Jehan to his favorite sultana, Moomtaz-i-Mahul, who died in childbirth of her eighth child. It is of white marble, and is so beautiful that it is called “A Poem in Marble,” and “The Marble Queen of Sorrow.”
Talbert [Tŏl´.but], John Talbert or rather Talbot. “The English Achillês,” first earl of Shrewsbury (1373-1453).
Our Talbert, to the French so terrible in war,
That with his very name their babes they used to scare.
Drayton, Polyolbion, xviii. (1613).
Tallbot (John), a name of terror in France. Same as above.
They in France, to feare their young children, crye, “The Talbot commeth!”--Hall, Chronicles (1545).
Is this the Talbot, so much feared abroad,
That with his name the mothers still their babes?
Shakespeare, 1 Henry VI. act. ii. sc. 3 (1589).