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simon-pure

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si·mon-pure  (smn-pyr)
adj.
1. Genuinely and thoroughly pure.
2. Superficially or hypocritically virtuous.
[From the phrase the real Simon Pure, after Simon Pure, a character in the play A Bold Stroke for a Wife by Susannah Centlivre (1669-1723).]
simon-pure
adj
real; genuine; authentic
[from the phrase the real Simon Pure, name of a character in the play A Bold Stroke for a Wife (1717) by Susannah Centlivre (1669-1723) who is impersonated by another character in some scenes]


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He's a labrick--just a Simon-pure labrick, if there was one.
Pudd'n'head Wilson by Twain, Mark View in context
And soon the bell--a genuine, simon-pure bell --rang, and we were invited to "the saloon.
The Innocents Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
But the surprise rose higher still when the dame, with a body oozing easy indifference at every pore, but eyes that gave it all away by absolutely flaming with vanity, slowly unfolded an actual simon-pure tablecloth and spread it.
A Connecticut Yankee by Twain, Mark View in context
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