cockalorum
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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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Dizzy Gillespie, the high cockalorum of bop, was getting top billing at the rival Strand Theater.
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The Daily Telegraph thought his cockalorum De Guiche in Cyrano de Bergerac "a remarkable feat."
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In the thunderous heyday of Prohibition gangsterism, Roger the Terrible was the jaunty cockalorum of northwest Cook County.
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"Hic hac horum, high cockalorum," continued Müller, with exceeding suavity.
From In the Days of My Youth by Edwards, Amelia Ann Blanford
