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Brewer's: Patelinage
Foolery, buffoonery; acting like Patelin in the French farce.
“I never in my life laughed so much as at the acting of that Patelinage.” —Rabelais: Pantagruel, iii. 34.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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