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Boniface|ˈbɒnɪfeɪs|
[Proper name.]
The name of the jovial innkeeper in Farquhar's Beaux' Stratagem 1707; whence taken as the generic proper name of innkeepers; ‘mine host’, or ‘the landlord’ of the inn.
[Not in Bailey, Johnson or Todd.]1803Bristed Pedest. Tour I. 120 To give the characteristic features and to stamp the peculiar traits of honest Boniface. 1829Scott Wav. Note 5, The devolution of the whole actual business..of the Inn upon the poor gude wife was very common among the Scottish Bonifaces. 1861Emerson Cond. Life ii. 42, I knew a burly Boniface who for many years kept a public-house in one of our rural capitals.
Hence (humorously) boniˈfacial a.
1859Sala Gaslight & D. viii. 99 There is the landlord, in..his bonifacial apron. |