Definitions
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- noun an excessively polite and well-dressed boy
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Examples
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Fauntleroy is east-west as is 45th and countless other roads throughout the world where road diets have been tried. morning
Cascade Encourages Members to Send Rasmussen Tums for Nickerson “Indigestion” « PubliCola 2010
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Fauntleroy is asleep upstairs, and Nancy is putting Lucy to bed.
The Story of My Life Annie Sullivan 1905
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Her intense interest in Fauntleroy must have buried all remembrance of "Frost Fairies," and when, more than three years later, she had acquired a fuller knowledge and use of language, and was told of Jack
The Story of My Life Annie Sullivan 1905
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When the Earl heard the story he was not angry, as Wilkins had been half afraid that he would be; on the contrary, he laughed outright, and called Fauntleroy up to him, and made him tell all about the matter from beginning to end, and then he laughed again.
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When the Earl heard the story he was not angry, as Wilkins had been half afraid that he would be; on the contrary, he laughed outright, and called Fauntleroy up to him, and made him tell all about the matter from beginning to end, and then he laughed again.
Little Lord Fauntleroy Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886
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Five-and-twenty years ago, at the epoch of this story, there dwelt in one of the Middle States a man whom we shall call Fauntleroy; a man of wealth, and magnificent tastes, and prodigal expenditure.
The Blithedale Romance Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834
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Which is a shame which must not be allowed to stand - because it is a WONDERFUL film. posted by Tom "Fauntleroy" Novak, who only had a raw egg and a mug of honey for breakfast and says McLintock! has been our Fourth of July pick, "Forty-Nine times in a row ... that must be some kind of a record!"
McLintock! The Sudden Curve's Fourth of July movie pick 2005
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Which is a shame which must not be allowed to stand - because it is a WONDERFUL film. posted by Tom "Fauntleroy" Novak, who only had a raw egg and a mug of honey for breakfast and says McLintock! has been our Fourth of July pick, "Forty-Nine times in a row ... that must be some kind of a record!"
McLintock! The Sudden Curve's Fourth of July movie pick 2005
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Which is a shame which must not be allowed to stand - because it is a WONDERFUL film. posted by Tom "Fauntleroy" Novak, who only had a raw egg and a mug of honey for breakfast and says McLintock! has been our Fourth of July pick, "Forty-Nine times in a row ... that must be some kind of a record!"
The Sudden Curve: 2005
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"Fauntleroy," he said in his unceremonious, authoritative way, "ask your mother when she will come to us at the Castle."
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