Brewer's: Picards

An immoral sect of fanatics in the 15th century; so called from Picard of Flanders, their founder, who called himself the New Adam, and tried to introduce the custom of living nude, like Adam in Paradise.

You are as hot-headed as a Picard.
This is a French expression, and is tantamount to our “Peppery as a Welshman.”
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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