cabotin

• She had had an idea that foreign actresses were rather of the cabotin order, but her hostess suggested to her much more a princess than a cabotine_. —  The Tragic Muse
• "Pah!" said an old cabotin, after one of these word-pictures. —  The Soul of the War
• When she dismisses Oscar Wilde as a cabotin and yet thinks that the law should not have meddled with him--is not that the man and the situation in a nutshell No wonder straightforward sentiments like these do not appeal to our age of neutral tints and compromise, to our vegetarian world-reformers who are as incapable of enthusiasm as they are of contempt, because their blood-temperature is invariably two degrees below the normal. —  Alone
• I'll be no _cabotin_ of care, —  Ballads of a Bohemian
• You would have treated me, had you been less polite, as a Philistine and a cabotin. —  Cosmopolis — Complete

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