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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—K

Knotted Stick is Planed

(The). The house of Orleans is worsted by that of Burgundy. The house of Orleans bore for its badge a bâton noueux, the house of Burgundy a plane; hence the French saying, “Le bâton noueux est plané.”

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