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?1623 O. Felltham Resolues lxxxiii. 271 To see how pot-valour thunders in a Tauerne, and appoints a Düell.

a1700 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Art of Love (1709) i. 43 Pot Valour only serves to fright the Fair.

1775 Mod. Midnight Conversat. 88 Learn to reverence your wife, Or you shall lead a dismal life. Thus you get fuddled ev'ry night, And think pot-valour will affright.

1858 A. Trollope Three Clerks I. ix. 192 Who remembered with all the energy of pot valour that he was not a mere clerk.

1899 S. Crane Blue Hotel ii, in Monster & Other Stories 123 During these moments he did not forget to wear his air of advanced pot-valor.

1921 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 8 Dec. 14/6 This little rodent, being now completely transformed by its repeated potations, reared bolt upright and, voicing the pot-valor of utter intoxication, both in tone and manner, it cried out in a voice like thunder.

1956 D. G. Browne Rise Scotl. Yard iii. xvii. 220 Pot-valour was fanned by the encouragement of a growing mob from the worst quarters of the district.

1977 Logophile 4 10/1 Such drinking may make you feel bold and fearless, fill you with pot-valour or ‘Dutch courage’.

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. vii. ii. 345 Suppose champagne flowing; with pot-valorous speech.

1872 C. Gibbon For King xv Hodge was already pot-valorous.

1966 R. L. Gale Barron's Simplified Approach to Red Badge Courage 94 Soon the pot-valorous Swede has returned to the sitting room.