Brewer's: Sacripant

A braggart, a noisy hectorer. He is introduced by Alexander Passoni, in a mock-heroic poem called The Rape of the Bucket.

Sacripant
(in Orlando Furioso). King of Circassia, and a Saracen.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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