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The Male-Coquette choose

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[UK] Garrick Male-Coquette II ii: (daff.: sneaking out by Degrees.) lord racket: This is a fine blow-up, indeed! Ladies, your humble Servant—Hallo! Daffodil. (Exit lord racket).
at blow-up, n.1
[UK] Garrick Male-Coquette II ii: There shall be none, lesse it wou’d be a bubble Bet.
at bubble, n.1
[UK] Garrick Male-Coquette I i: Lookee, Bell, ’tis in vain to oppose me, for I am resolv’d.
at lookee here!, excl.
[UK] Garrick Male-Coquette I i: sophia.: I dress’d me as you see, [in Men’s Cloaths] call’d a Chair, and went to the King’s-Arms—and ask’d for my Gentleman, [...] I introduc’d myself as an Italian Nobleman, just arriv’d: Il Marchese di Macaroni—.
at macaroni, n.1
[UK] Garrick Male-Coquette II ii: My Lord has got to plain Nantz now every Morning.
at nantz, n.
[UK] H.W. Foster Coquette 138: Well, Charles, the show is over, as we yankees say; and the girl is my own.
at show, n.
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