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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—A

Alcofribas

The pseudonym of Rabelais in his Gargantua and Pantagruel. Alcofribas Nasier is an anagram of “François Rabelais.” The introduction runs thus: “The inestimable life of the great Gargantua, father of Pantagruel, heretofore composed by M. Alcofribas, abstractor of the quintessence, a book full of pantagruelism.”

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
Alcuith
Alcinoo poma dare
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