Shatton(Sir Piercie). In this character Sir Walter Scott has
made familiar to us the euphuisms of Queen Elizabeth's age. The
fashionable cavalier or pedantic fop, who assumes the high-flown style
rendered fashionable by Lyly, was grandson of old Overstitch the
tailor. ( Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Shatton from Infoplease:
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