(Washington Irving). Obesity; a large projecting paunch; what Shakespeare calls a “fair round belly with good capon lined.” (As You Like It, ii. 7.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and…
(The). Supposed to be Goldsmith's father. (Citizen of the World.) Washington Irving has a tale with the same title. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Man in…
The hypothetical author of the Sketch Book. Washington Irving, of New York (1783-1859). Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894GeologyGentleman of Paper and Wax A…
The name given, in Washington Irving's Sketch Book, to a quiet old-world village on the Hudson. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894SleeveSleepless Hat A B C…
(A). A Brummagem captain; a “General von Poffenburgh.” Michael Perez is so called in Rule a Wife and have a Wife, by Beaumont and Fletcher. “To this copper-captain was confided the command…
(Geoffrey). The nom de plume under which Washington Irving published The Sketch-Book. (1820.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Creaking Doors hang the…
George Whitefield, so called by Foote in his farce entitled The Minor. (1714-1770.) Theodore Hook applied the same sobriquet to the Rev. Edward Irving, who had an obliquity of the eyes. (…
Loose knee-breeches, worn by boys, cyclists, sportsmen, tourists, etc. So named from George Cruikshank's illustrations of Washington Irving's book referred to above. In these illustrations…
A large clasp-knife, or combat with clasp-knives. (“Snick,” Icelandic snikka, to clip; verb, snitte, to cut. “Snee” is the Dutch snee, an edge; snijden, to cut.) Thackeray, in his Little…
Abdall′ah the father of Mahomet, was so beautiful, that when he married Amina, 200 virgins broke their hearts from disappointed love. —Washington Irving: Life of Mahomet. Brother and…
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