Brewer's: Daron, Daronne

(French). The sobriquet given, at the present day, by workmen to shopkeepers and cobblers.

“Il étoit maitre de tout, jusqu'à manier l'argent de la daronne.” —Histoire de Guillaume, cocher.

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