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Crispin   Listen
noun
Crispin  n.  
1.
A shoemaker; jocularly so called from the patron saint of the craft.
2.
A member of a union or association of shoemakers.





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"Crispin" Quotes from Famous Books



... rounder in his orbit, and a little more likely to see stars, after such a dinner as this, than before. Do I not, indeed, see around me now, all the stars of the intellectual firmament? Are not SIRIUS and ARCTURUS here, in their glory, as well as ORION and the rest? As my old friend CRISPIN would say, their name is legion! I would blaze, gentlemen, too, if possible, in honor of the occasion; but, as I can't Comet, meteors fall in lamentation of ...
— Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 7, May 14, 1870 • Various
... England; nor does she trouble herself at all to seek for woman's mission. She found it years ago. It is to deceive a man. She is satisfied with her condition, and with the old mental and moral attributes of her sex. When Crispin disguises himself in her clothes, ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 • Various


Words linked to "Crispin" :   patron saint


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