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Definition of Bowdlerises
1. bowdlerise [v] - See also: bowdlerise
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bowdlerises
Literary usage of Bowdlerises
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The First World War, 1914-1918: Personal Experiences of Lieut.-Col. C. à by Charles à Court Repington (1920)
"The Stefani Agency frequently bowdlerises debates, and its messages are tendentious.
He asked me to warn Gwynne. Miller a good, cool, independent man with ..."
2. The American Woman Abroad by Blanche McManus (1911)
"She imports Paris models, bowdlerises them, adapts them to suit her own trade
and then exports them to all points of the compass—to South America—and —let ..."
3. Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans by Plutarch, Donato Acciaiuoli (1895)
"Le deluge,1 for example, is always ' Noe's flood'; and in one celebrated passage
he bowdlerises without shame, turning Florals parting caress to Pompey into ..."
4. Somehow Good by William Frend De Morgan (1908)
"It bowdlerises Potiphar's wife, and favours the impression that in Sodom and
Gomorrah the inhabitants were dissipated and sat up late. ..."
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