Brewer's: Gabrioletta

(g hard). Governess of Brittany, rescued by Amadis of Gaul from the hands of Balan, “the bravest and strongest of all the giants.” (Amadis of Gaul, bk. iv. ch. 129.)

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