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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Plon-plon.
 
The sobriquet of Prince Napoleon Joseph Charles Bonaparte, son of Jerome Bonaparte. He was nicknamed Craint-plon (Fear-bullet) in the Criman war (1854–1856), a nickname afterwards perverted into Plon-plon. (1822–1891.)   1
 


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