An inhabitant of Poland. (French, Polaque.)
“So frowned he once, when, in angry parlc,
He smote the sledded Polacks on the ice.”
Shakespeare: Hamlet, i. 1.
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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.