/ · 1894 Brewer’s · P · Petaud
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
ʹTis the court of King Petaud, where everyone is master. There is no order or discipline at all. This is a French proverb. Petaud is a corruption of peto (I beg), and King Petaud means king of the beggars, in whose court all are equal. (See Alsatia.)
· ·
Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
· 
· 
· ·