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ID | Word | Wordtype | Definition |
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142472 | Skimmington | n. | A word employed in the phrase, To ride Skimmington; that is to ride on a horse with a woman, but behind her, facing backward, carrying a distaff, and accompanied by a procession of jeering neighbors making mock music; a cavalcade in ridicule of a henpecked man. The custom was in vogue in parts of England. |
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Gothicism | Lockage | Flavorles | Capitular | Regulate |