Alcofribas.

The pseudonym of Rabelais in his Gargantua and Pantagruel. Alcofribas Nasier is an anagram of “François Rabelais.” The introduction runs thus: “The inestimable life of the great Gargantua, father of Pantagruel, heretofore composed by M. Alcofribas, abstractor of the quint-essence, a book full of pantagruelism.”

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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.

Alcaic Verse
Alcantara (Order of)
Alcastus (in Jerusalem Delivered)
Alce
Alceste
Alchemilla
Alchemy (Al-ki-mĕ)
Alcimedon
Alcina
Alcinoo poma dare (to give apples to Alcinŏus)
Alcofribas
Alcuith
Aldabella
Aldebaran
Alderman
Alderman (An)
Alderman (An)
Aldgate Pump
Aldibo-ronte-phosco-phornio
Aldiger (in Orlando Furioso)
Aldine