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False curls on the temples; a curl of hair on the temples plastered with some cosmetic; whiskers made to meet the mouth.

“Yet tell me, sire, donʹt you as nice appear

With your false calves, bardash, and favʹrites here?”


Mrs. Centlivre.

 

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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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Faults
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Favourites
Fay
Faye
Fazio
Fear Fortress
Fearless [Sans peur]
Feast of Reason
Feasts
Feather
Feather in Your Cap
Feather One’s Nest