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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I have been, in return, telling him the story of the Irish schoolmaster who puzzled the magistrate's bench by a petition about a small cornuted animal, meaning a kid.
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How deemest thou of yonder cornuted, who is drunken in his heedlessness and weeteth not the wiles of women?
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