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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Po’lack.
 
An inhabitant of Poland. (French, Polaque.)   1
       
“So frowned he once, when, in angry parlc,
He smote the sledded Polacks on the ice.”
       
Shakespeare: Hamlet, i. 1.
 


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