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Cʹest un Maître Gonin. He is a sly dog. Maître Gonin was a famous clown in the sixteenth century. “Un tour de Maître Gonin” means a cunning or scurvy trick. (See Aliboron.)
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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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