1894 Brewer’s / B / Brute (Sir John)
A coarse, potvaliant knight, ignobly noted for his absurdities. (Vanbrugh: The Provoked Wife.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.