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Jupiter Scapin

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A nickname of Napoleon Bonaparte, given him by the Abbé de Pradt. Scapin is a valet famous for his knavish tricks, in Molière’s comedy of Les Fourberies de Scapin.

 

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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.

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Junior Soph
Junius
Junk
Junk
Junket
Junner
Juno
Junonian Bird
Junto
Jupiter
Jupiter Scapin
Jupiter’s Beard
Jurassic Rocks
Jurisprudence
Jury Leg (A)
Jury Mast
Jus Civile
Jus Divinum
Jus Gentium (Latin)
Jus Mariti (Latin)
Jus de Réglisse (liquorice)

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Jupiter Scapin