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Bowdler

noun
1.
English editor who in 1818 published an expurgated edition of the works of Shakespeare (1754-1825).  Synonym: Thomas Bowdler.



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"Bowdler" Quotes from Famous Books



... present knowledges,—he was aware of that, finding how few topics in common there were between them; but it troubled the self-reliant old fellow but little. Since he left Yale, where he and this girl's uncle, Doctor Bowdler, had been chums together, he had lived in this out-of-the-way corner of the world, and many of the rough ways of speaking and acting of the people had clung to him, as their red mud to his shoes. As he grew older, he did not care ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 • Various



Words linked to "Bowdler" :   editor in chief, bowdlerise, editor



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