cockalorum
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The Daily Telegraph thought his cockalorum De Guiche in Cyrano de Bergerac "a remarkable feat."
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Born with no great passion for "the high cockalorum of heroism," De Forest wrote frankly of the nuisance of being shot at, of the multiple woes of a company-grade officer's life.
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Dizzy Gillespie, the high cockalorum of bop, was getting top billing at the rival Strand Theater.
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Other plotters are Vincent Price and Edith Barrett, whose contributions to the high cockalorum are good, but occasionally strained.
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"Hollo, young cockalorum, is it there you are!" shouted Pete.
From The Manxman A Novel - 1895 by Caine, Hall, Sir
