Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—G

Gaul

(g hard). France.

“Insulting Gaul has roused the world to war.”

Thomson: Autumn.

“Shall haughty Gaul invasion threat?” —Burns.

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