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Brad amant or Bradamanʹte

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Sister of Rinaldo, in Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso. She is represented as a most wonderful Christian Amʹazon, possessed of an irresistible spear, which unhorsed every knight that it touched. The same character appears in the Orlando Innamoraʹto of Bojardo.

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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.