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lady bountiful

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lady bountiful
n
an ostentatiously charitable woman
[after a character in George Farquhar's play The Beaux' Stratagem (1707)]


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I recalled her as an energetic, autocratic personality, somewhat inclined to charitable and social notoriety, with a fondness for opening bazaars and playing the Lady Bountiful.
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