Brewer's: Cressy

(Battle of). Won by Edward III. and the Black Prince over Philippe VI. of France, August 26, 1346.

“Cressy was lost by kickshaws and soup meagre.” Fenton: Prol. to Southern's Spartan Dame.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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