“Old King Cole”

1. A nursery rhyme. Its first stanza reads:

   Old King Cole was a merry old soul,

   And a merry old soul was he;

   He called for his pipe and he called for his bowl,

   And he called for his fiddlers three.

Example Sentences

Old King Cole will come and bring his fiddlers three to play for the young folks who dance.

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I have heard him singing “Old King Cole” and half a dozen more songs, all mixed up in a heap, after a hunt-supper.

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In fact, Lear might begin like an old King Cole, "a merry old soul," a "jolly old cock!"

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"Ladies in the center, as for the quadrille figure," called Old King Cole, who acted as master of ceremonies.

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Beside it was a celluloid rhinoceros; tight in his hand a torn picture of Old King Cole.

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