John Falstaff
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A fat, vainglorious, cowardly, jolly knight. The character was invented by William Shakespeare for his plays Henry IV (parts 1 and 2) and also appeared in The Merry Wives of Windsor. By extension, Falstaffian means corpulent and jolly.
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