SIR PETRONEL FLASH, subs. phr. (old).—A swaggerer; a penniless ruffler; see quot. 1595.
1595. FLORIO, A Worlde of Wordes, 585. SIR PETRONEL FLASH, a boasteing fellowe, a braggadochio.
1605. JONSON, CHAPMAN, and MARSTON, Eastward Hoe. Dramatis Personæ. SIR PETRONEL FLASH.
1812. The British Bibliographer, ii. 167.
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