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cornuto en · NOUN

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian cornuto, from Latin cornūtus (“horned”).

Meanings

1. (obsolete) A cuckold.
   • No, Master Brook, but the peaking cornuto / her husband, Master Brook, dwelling in a continual / 'larum of jealousy, comes me in the instant of our / encounter, after we had embraced, kissed, protested, / and, as it were, spoke the prologue of our comedy a. 1597, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, act 3, scene 5:

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