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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



... discipline is well kept, serious prison offences are rare, the health of the men is excellent, whilst severe punishments are seldom needful. I here beg leave to make favourable mention of Mr. W.R. Fauntleroy, Acting Comptroller-General of Convicts, who has proved himself to be my ...
— Explorations in Australia • John Forrest

... instead of waiting until the moment after next? It was too much like saving up one's good clothes for "best," a lower-middle-class habit which I have detested since the days when I howled for my smartest Lord Fauntleroy frills in the morning. ...
— The Princess Passes • Alice Muriel Williamson and Charles Norris Williamson

... Major P. C. Fauntleroy was sent to Columbus to handle the medical supplies. Nine medical officers and fifty-four hospital corps men went from the Department of the East carrying a big supply of surgical dressings, anti-typhoid prophylactics and the complete ...
— The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado • Logan Marshall

... you say," Bowman agreed, "but remember this—you can't throw any scare into me. I'm no Fauntleroy, neither. Behave." ...
— The Happy End • Joseph Hergesheimer

... self-immolation, which sometimes, as in the case of her last book, 'A Lady of Quality' (1895), verge on sensationalism. In 1873 Miss Hodgson married Dr. Burnett of Washington. Her longest novel, 'Through One Administration,' is a story of the political and social life of the Capital. 'Little Lord Fauntleroy' (1886) is the best known of a series of stories nominally written for children, but intended to be read by their elders. 'Sara Crewe,' 'Giovanni and the Other,' 'Two Little Pilgrims,' and 'Little Saint Elizabeth' are chronicles ...
— Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 • Various

... transgression of the laws or customs of ship or forecastle. The "cut-tail" was everybody's drudge, yet gloried in it, and a boy of Gloucester or Marblehead, who had lived his twelve years without at least one voyage to his credit, was in as sorry a state among his fellow urchins as a "Little Lord Fauntleroy" would be in the company of Tom Sawyer ...
— American Merchant Ships and Sailors • Willis J. Abbot



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



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