Olivʹia

Niece of Sir Toby Belch. Malvoʹlio is her steward, Maria her woman, Fabian and a clown her male servants. (Shakespeare: Twelfth Night.)

Olivia. A female Tartuffe (q.v.) in Wycherley’s Plain Dealer. A consummate hypocrite, of most unblushing effrontery.

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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.