Brewer's: French of Stratford atte Bowe

English-French.

And French, she [the nun] spak full, faire and fetysly, After the scole of Stratford atte Bowe, For French of Parys was to hire unknowe.

Chaucer: Canterbury Tales (The Prologue).

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