Boustrapʹa
.Napoleòn III. The word is compounded of the first syllables Bou-logne, Stra-sbourg, Pa-ris, and alludes to his escapades in 1836 and 1840.
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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.