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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—B

Bradamant

or Bradamante. Sister of Rinaldo, in Ariosto's Orlando Furioso. She is represented as a most wonderful Christian Amazon, possessed of an irresistible spear, which unhorsed every knight that it touched. The same character appears in the Orlando Innamorato of Bojardo.

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