1894 Brewer’s / R / Rabelais
The English Rabelais. Swift, Sterne, and Thomas Amory have been so called. Voltaire so calls Swift.
The modern Rabelais. William Maginn (1794–1842).
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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.