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Lord Mayor's fool en · NOUN
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An imaginary personage said to like everything that is good, and plenty of it.
The Clown is a London cockney, with a prodigious eye to his own comfort and muffins,—a Lord Mayor's fool, who loved "everything that was good;" and Columbine is the boarding-school girl, ripe for running away with, and making a dance of it all the way from Chelsea to Gretna Green.
1845, Leigh Hunt, The Indicator: a Miscellany for the Fields and the Fireside, page 213:
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