cabotin

• “Is it his supreme object to make an impression at any cost, to force, like another Nero, the popular applause by arts more becoming to a _cabotin_ than a sovereign?”

  William of Germany

• “Pah!" said an old cabotin, after one of these word-pictures.”

  The Soul of the War

• “The learned author evades plumbing the psychological springs of this astounding and almost invariable vanity, this endless bumptiousness of the _cabotin_ in all climes and all ages.”

  Damn! A Book of Calumny

• “Uncle Adolph was quite right: he knew how close the ordinary actor and opera-singer was to the cabotin.”

  Richard Wagner

• “But Geyer, we must remember, was very far away indeed from the cabotin.”

  Richard Wagner

• “Is it his supreme object to make an impression at any cost, to force, like another Nero, the popular applause by arts more becoming to a cabotin than a sovereign?”

  William of Germany

• “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?”

  Alone

• “You would have treated me, had you been less polite, as a Philistine and a cabotin.”

  Cosmopolis — Complete

• “Uncle Adolph was quite right: he knew how close the ordinary actor and opera-singer was to the _cabotin_.”

  Richard Wagner Composer of Operas

• “But Geyer, we must remember, was very far away indeed from the _cabotin_.”

  Richard Wagner Composer of Operas

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