cabotinn.
/ˈkabətɪn/, /kabᵿˈtã/, U.S. /ˈkæbətn/ A low-class actor. Also attributive.
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1903 A. Bennett Truth about Author xv. 196 He is terrible against cabotins, no matter where he finds them.
1909 H. James Tragic Muse I. p. xvii The mountebank, the mummer and the cabotin.
1930 J. Agate Red Letter Nights (1944) 129 There remain those impudences..which fell from Duse like sour benedictions, from Sarah with the cabotine's natural, slightly vulgar good nature.
1951 L. P. Hartley My Fellow Devils i. 8 He was a cabotin sort of character, always playing a lonely part.
1951 L. P. Hartley My Fellow Devils xxi. 218 ‘Cabotin’ character..seems to mean someone who enjoys playing..a rather second-rate part, who has no core of personality.
1966 Punch 30 Nov. 826/2 Sarah Bernhardt was a cabotine; she excelled in the art of self-advertisement.
Derivatives
cabotinism n. the state or quality of being a cabotin; = cabotinage n.
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1926 R. Fry Transformations 120 The incalculable difference between Velasquez's distinction, detachment and scrupulous reserve as compared with Caravaggio's blustering Cabotinism.
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