(i.e. of Lorraine). This incorrect form is generally
used in English for the name of Claude le Lorrain, or Claude Gelée, the
French landscape painter, born at the Château-de-Chamage, in
Lorraine.
(1600-1682.)
The Scotch Claude.
Thomas of Duddingston (near Edinburgh)
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
