/ · 1894 Brewer’s · C · Costard
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A clown in Love’s Labour’s Lost (Shakespeare), who apes the court wit of Queen Elizabeth’s time, but misapplies and miscalls like Mrs. Malaprop or Master Dogberry.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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