Brewer's: Tobosian

The rampant Manchegan lion shall be united to the white Tobosian dove. Literally, Don Quixote de la Mancha shall marry Dulcinea del Toboso. Metaphorically, “None but the brave deserve the fair.”

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