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Bowdler

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Noun1.Bowdler - English editor who in 1818 published an expurgated edition of the works of Shakespeare (1754-1825)


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But not enough is being done to offer the community fair lending opportunities, Bowdler said.
Today, we laugh at Thomas Bowdler and his sanitized Shakespeare--even at Noah Webster, who considered his own "Bowdlerized" edition of the Bible a greater achievement than his dictionary of American English (Perrin, 1992).
According to Cripple, not only are the maids chaste, but they get the better of consumers such as Bowdler because the women know how to manipulate their customer's desires to their own benefit.
 
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