Brewer's: Teniers

Malplaquet, in France, famous for the victory of the Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene over the French under Marshal Villars on September 11, 1709.

Her courage tried On Teniers' dreadful field.

Thomson: Autumn.

The Scottish Teniers. Sir David Wilkie (1785-1841).

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