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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—F

Frondeur

A backbiter; one who throws stones at another.

“`And what about Diebitsch?' began another frondeur.” —Vera, p. 200.

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