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turncoat

[turn-koht] / ˈtɜrnˌkoʊt /


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Last week Turncoat Sartre cried havoc because Dirty Hands was presented at Vienna's Volkstheater.

From Time Magazine Archive

Among the poems were "A Turncoat of the Times," Spenser's "Prosopopeia," "The Scyrge of Drunkenness," a "Description of a Good Wife," the ballad of "The Maunding Soldier," and Wither's works.

From Customs and Fashions in Old New England by Earle, Alice Morse

By a friend of Sir Turncoat 'twas lately averr'd, The electors would find him as good as his word!

From The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings by Lemon, Mark




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