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Maraʹbout (in French)

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A big-bellied kettle; a very large sail; an ugly baboon of a man; also a sort of plume at one time worn by ladies. The “marabout hat” was a hat adorned with a marabou feather.

 

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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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Mantuan Swain, Swan, or Bard (The)
Manucodiata (The)
Manumit
Manure
Many
Many a Mickle makes a Muckle
Many Men, Many Minds
Maori (The)
Mara
Marabou Feathers
Marabout (in French)
Marabuts
Maranatha (Syriac, the Lord will comei.e. to execute judgment)
Maravedi
Marbles
Marcassin (The Prince)
Marcella
Marcellina
Marcellus (in Dibdin’s Bibliomania, a romance,)
March
March Dust