- bowdlerisation
- bowdlerisation owdlerisation n.
the deletion of all passages considered to be indecent.
Syn: bowdlerization, expurgation. [WordNet 1.5]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
bowdlerisation
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