Brewer's: Papimany

The country of the Papimans; the country subject to the Pope, or any priest-ridden country, as Spain. (Rabelais: Gargantua and Pantagruel, iv. 45.)

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