A debauched woman. The citizens of Paris bestowed the name on Isabella of Bavaria.
“We have here … a man … who to his second wife espoused La grande Gourre.”—Rabelais: Pantagʹruel, iii. 21.
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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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