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Brunello (in Orlando Furioso)

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A deformed dwarf of Biserta, to whom King Agʹramant gave a ring which had the virtue to withstaud the power of magic (book ii.). He was leader of the Tingitaʹnians in the Saracen army. He also figures in Bojardo’s Orlando Innamorato.

 

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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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Browns
Brownie
Brownists
Browse his Jib (To)
Bruel
Bruin
Brumaire
Brummagem
Brums
Brunehild
Brunello (in Orlando Furioso)
Brunswicker
Brunt
Brush
Brush up (To)
Brut
Brut dAngleterre
Brute
Brute (Sir John)
Brute or Brutus
Brutum Fulmen (Latin)