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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—I

Ironside

Edmund II., King of the Anglo-Saxons, was so called, from his iron armour. (989, 1016-1017.)

Nestor Ironside.
Sir Richard Steele, who assumed the name in The Guardian. (1671-1729.)

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