Brewer's: Bragmardo

When Gargantua took the bells of Notre Dame de Paris to hang about the neck of his horse, the citizens sent Bragmardo to him with a remonstrance. (Rabelais: Gargantua and Pantagruel. )

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