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Examples
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Is it his supreme object to make an impression at any cost, to force, like another Nero, the popular applause by arts more becoming to a _cabotin_ than a sovereign?
William of Germany Stanley Shaw
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"Pah!" said an old cabotin, after one of these word-pictures.
The Soul of the War Philip Gibbs 1919
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The learned author evades plumbing the psychological springs of this astounding and almost invariable vanity, this endless bumptiousness of the _cabotin_ in all climes and all ages.
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Uncle Adolph was quite right: he knew how close the ordinary actor and opera-singer was to the cabotin.
Richard Wagner Runciman, John F 1913
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But Geyer, we must remember, was very far away indeed from the cabotin.
Richard Wagner Runciman, John F 1913
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Is it his supreme object to make an impression at any cost, to force, like another Nero, the popular applause by arts more becoming to a cabotin than a sovereign?
William of Germany Shaw, Stanley 1913
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When she dismisses Oscar Wilde as a cabotin and yet thinks that the law should not have meddled with him -- is not that the man and the situation in a nutshell?
Alone Norman Douglas 1910
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You would have treated me, had you been less polite, as a Philistine and a cabotin.
Cosmopolis — Complete Paul Bourget 1893
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Uncle Adolph was quite right: he knew how close the ordinary actor and opera-singer was to the _cabotin_.
Richard Wagner Composer of Operas John F. Runciman 1891
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But Geyer, we must remember, was very far away indeed from the _cabotin_.
Richard Wagner Composer of Operas John F. Runciman 1891
oroboros commented on the word cabotin
A medical quack. (according to NPR's Says You)
February 2, 2013