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This incorrect form is generally used in English for the name of Claude le Lorrain, or Claude Gelée, the French landscape painter, born at the Châteaude-Chamage, in Lorraine. (1600–1682.)
The Scotch Claude. Thomas of Duddingston (near Edinburgh).
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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.