Brewer's: Frollo

(Archdeacon Claude). A priest who has a great reputation for sanctity, but falls in love with a gipsy girl, and pursues her with relentless persecution because she will not yield to him. (Victor Hugo: Notre Dame de Paris.)

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