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‖ Mamamouchi
The mock-Turkish title pretended to have been conferred by the Sultan upon M. Jourdain, in Molière's play Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, iv. iii. Hence occas. used for: A pompous-sounding title; also, one assuming such a title; a ridiculous pretender to elevated dignity.
1672Dryden Assign. Prol. 30 You must have Mamamouchi, such a Fop As would appear a Monster in a Shop. a1734North Exam. ii. iv. §5 (1740) 233 So then he drops his mammamouchi Outside of Oates's Plot in the dark, no more to be heard of in that Reign. 1749H. Walpole Lett. (1846) II. 287 This ridiculous Mamamouchi [The Duke of Newcastle, Chancellor of Cambridge University].
Comb.1673Mem. Madam Charlton 12 Charlton fancies nothing less than to be made a Duke, or some strange Mammamouchy-Titulado. |