Brewer's: Taborites

(3 syl.). A sect of Hussites in Bohemia. So called from the fortress Tabor, about fifty miles from Prague, from which Nicholas von Hussineez, one of the founders, expelled the Imperial army. They are now incorporated with the Bohemian Brethren.

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