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单词 men in buckram
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men in buckram

archaic Non-existent people.A severe-looking person, who wears a Spanish cloak alluded, with a certain lifting of the brow, drawing down of the corners of the mouth, and somewhat rasping voce di petto, to Falstaff's nine men in buckram....
  • When Hal and Poins play the robbery joke on Falstaff and lead him to falsely admit that instead of behaving in a cowardly fashion when robbed, he fought off eleven men in buckram suits in vain.
  • Further, in the older play there is a revel in ‘the old tavern at Eastcheap’ and it is at the Boar's Head, Eastcheap, that Falstaff tells his tale of the men in buckram.
With allusion to Shakespeare's 1 Henry IV ii. iv. 210–50
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