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Fauntleroy   /fˈɔntlərˌɔɪ/   Listen
Fauntleroy

noun
1.
An excessively polite and well-dressed boy.  Synonym: Little Lord Fauntleroy.





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"Fauntleroy" Quotes from Famous Books



... the social summit, we have Kingson, often confused with the local Kingston, and its Anglo-French equivalent Fauntleroy. Faunt, aphetic for Anglo-Fr. enfaunt, is common in Mid. English. When the mother of Moses had made the ark of bulrushes, or, as Wyclif calls it, ...
— The Romance of Names • Ernest Weekley
... guess not. I've got a little Lord Fauntleroy suit of black velvet, with kid gloves and all the fixin's. But you ain't told ...
— Mark Mason's Victory • Horatio Alger


Words linked to "Fauntleroy" :   boy, male child, Little Lord Fauntleroy


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