BonifaceA sleek, good-tempered, jolly landlord. From Farquhar's comedy of The Beaux' Stratagem. “A regular British Boniface.” —The John Bull. St. Boniface. The apostle of Germany, an Anglo-Saxon whose original name was Winifrid or Winfrith. (680-750.)
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Boniface from Infoplease:
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