The sporting rake in Pierce Egan’s Life in London. A “Corinthian” was the “fast man” of Shakespeare’s period.
“I am no proud Jack, like Falstaff; but a Corinthian, a lad of mettle, a good boy.”—Shakespeare: 1 Henry IV., ii. 4.
· ·
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
· 
· 
· ·