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Margarine Substitute (A)

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A mere imitation. Just as margarine is an imitation and substitute of butter.

Between a real etching and that margarine substitute a pen-and-ink drawing … the difference is this: the margarine substitute is essentially flat … but true etching is in sensible relief.”—Nineteenth Century, May 1891, p. 780.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Mare
Mare’s Nest
Mareotic Luxury
Marfisa
Marforio
Margan Monastery (Register of)
Margaret
Margaret (St.)
Margaret
Margaret or Marguerite (petite)
Margarine Substitute (A)
Margate (Kent)
Margherita di Valois
Margin
Margītēs
Marguerite des Marguerites [the pearl of pearls]
Margutte
Maria
Maria Theresa
Mariamites
Mariana