Brewer's: Hougoumont

is said to be a corruption of Cháteau Goumont; but Victor Hugo says it is Hugo-mons, and that the house was built by Hugo, Sire de Sommeril, the same person that endowed the sixth chapelry of the abbey of Villers.

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