Brewer's: Alifanfaron

the giant. Don Quixote attacked a flock of sheep, which he declared to be the army of the giant Alifanfaron. Similarly Ajax, in a fit of madness, fell upon a flock of sheep, which he mistook for Grecian princes.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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