Brewer's: Nardac

The highest title of honour in the realm of Lilliput. Gulliver received this distinction for carrying off the whole fleet of the Blefuscudians. (Swift: Gulliver's Travels; Voyage to Lilliput, v.)

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