Brewer's: Field of the Cloth of Gold

The plain, near Guisnes, where Henry VIII. had his interview with Francois I. in 1520; so called from the splendour and magnificence displayed there on the occasion.

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