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Saʹcripant

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A braggart, a noisy hectorer. He is introduced by Alexander Passoni, in a mock-heroic poem called The Rape of the Bucket.

Saʹcripant (in Orlando Furioso). King of Circassia, and a Saracen.

 

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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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