Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A thing of small value; a trifle.
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Examples
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Then for Desdemona: a fig's-end for her virtue! but he has no ill-will to her.
Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth 1893
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Blessed fig's-end! the wine she drinks is made of grapes: if she had been blessed, she would never have loved the Moor.
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