Cotereaux (French)
. Cut-throats. The King of England, irritated at the rising in Brittany in the twelfth century, sent the Brabancons (q.v.) to ravage the lands of Raoul de Fourgères. These cut-throats carried knives (couteaux) with them, whence their name.
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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.