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False curls on the temples; a curl of hair on the temples plastered with some cosmetic; whiskers made to meet the mouth.
“Yet tell me, sire, don’t you as nice appear
With your false calves, bardash, and fav’rites here?”
Mrs. Centlivre.
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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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