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Scaramouch   /skˈærəmˌaʊtʃ/   Listen
Scaramouch

noun
1.
A stock character in commedia dell'arte depicted as a boastful coward.  Synonym: Scaramouche.





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"Scaramouch" Quotes from Famous Books



... unstable equilibrium, anon stooping to his finger-tips, then straining doubtfully forward with struggling arms from a too backward poise: for not only did the trousers lie a twisted emptiness far below his feet, but the feet themselves were lost in Young's boots, so he stood like Scaramouch, a mere sack, a working of his chin wobbling down his beard, and there was a blaze in his stare which Hogarth, ...
— The Lord of the Sea • M. P. Shiel


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