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Foister

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Foist´er
n.1.One who foists something surreptitiously; a falsifier.


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In Hans Holbein's 1533 painting The Ambassadors, a skull in anamorphotic perspective cuts across a double portrait of the Dinteville brothers, French ambassadors to the court of Henry VIII (see Foister et al.
Dunkerton, Jill and Susan Foister and Nicholas Penny.
Safire lowered his voice and said, "You bet you life I am"-- was also the foister, as a Nixon speechwriter, of the phrase, "nattering nabobs of negativism" on an unsuspecting world.
 
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