Cibber

[sib-er]

noun

Col·ley [kol-ee] /ˈkɒl i/, 1671–1757, English actor and dramatist: poet laureate 1730–57.

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Historical Examples of cibber

Haslewood believed it to have been the production of Messrs. Cibber and Shiels.
Notes and Queries, No. 179. Saturday, April 2, 1853.
Various
Cibber's own letters are as lively as Mrs. Pilkington's report of his talk.
Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.)
Leslie Stephen
Cibber and others, as you know, wanted to alter Shakespeare.
Short Studies on Great Subjects
James Anthony Froude
Where has Cibber been all the while, and what has he been doing?
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845
Various
Pope disliked and satirised her severely; on the other hand, Cibber worshipped her.
The Beaux-Stratagem
George Farquhar

British Dictionary definitions for cibber

Cibber

noun

Colley (ˈkɒlɪ). 1671–1757, English actor and dramatist; poet laureate (1730–57)

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