Brewer's: Castagnette

(Captain). A hero noted for having his stomach replaced by Desgenettes by a leather one. His career is ended by a bomb, which blows him into fragments. An extravaganza from the French of Manuel.

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