cornuted
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Origin of cornuted
Example Sentences
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For this—to be cornuted in mine age And die a by-word?
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None of those bell-girdles, bushel-breeches, cornuted shoes, or other the like phenomena, of which the History of Dress offers so many, escape him: more especially the mischances, or striking adventures, incident to the wearers of such, are noticed with due fidelity.
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Literally to crown all, his ruddy hair was twisted upward from each temple in a cornuted fashion that was most vividly picturesque.
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There is one in particular, Le Lovelace Fran�ais, where he personates an upholsterer of the Rue St. Antoine, who has just been cornuted by the young Duke of Richelieu.
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Ranging these in order due, Pluck me next an old Cuckoo; Emblem of the happy fates Of easy, kind, cornuted mates.
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