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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—B

Brabancons

Troops of adventurers and bandits, who made war a trade and lent themselves for money to anyone who would pay them; so called from Brabant, their great nest. (Twelfth century.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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