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in Molière’s time, was black from top to toe; hence he says, “Night has put on her ‘scaramouch dress.ʹ”
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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.