A cowardly, bragging captain, a sort of Bobadil (q.v.). (Beaumont and Fletcher: A King and no King.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894BestBessie Bell and Mary…
A travelled, dissipated fellow, who is proof against all the wiles of the fair sex. (Beaumont and Fletcher; Wildgoose Chase.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…
An ignorant, testy old man, an ultra-admirer of learning. (Fletcher: The Elder Brother.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894MirandaMiramolin A B C D E F…
A brave, honest soldier, who believes everyone to be true and honest till convicted of crime, and then is he a relentless punisher. (Beaumont and Fletcher The Maid's Tragedy.) Source:…
Eye salve. In allusion to the ancient practice of rubbing “stynas of the eye” with a gold ring to cure them. I have a sty here, Chilax, I have no gold to cure it. Beaumont and Fletcher:…
(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…
called by Bacon jeutrompe, by Beaumont and Fletcher, jew-trump, by Hakluyt, jew's-harp. The best players on this instrument have been Koch, a Prussian soldier under Frederick the Great;…
(Mons.). The beau-ideal of poltroonery. He would think the world out of joint if no one gave him a tweak of the nose or lug of the ear. (Beaumont and Fletcher: Nice Valor, or the…
A lock that cannot be opened unless certain chosen letters are arranged in a certain order. “A strange lock that opens with A M E” Beaumont and Fletcher: Noble Gentleman. Source:…
(Encyclopedia) CleopatraCleopatraklēəpăˈtrə, –pāˈ–, –päˈ– [key], 69 b.c.–30 b.c., queen of Egypt, one of the great romantic heroines of all time. Her name was widely used in the Ptolemaic family; she…
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