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  • 1Strolling Actresses Dressing in a Barn — Infobox Painting title=Strolling Actresses Dressing in a Barn artist=William Hogarth year=1738 type= museum= Strolling Actresses Dressing in a Barn is a painting from 1738 by William Hogarth reproduced as an engraving and issued with Four Times… …

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  • 2vagabond — I. a. Wandering, homeless. II. n. Vagrant, outcast, castaway, loafer, lounger, nomad, land loper, idle wanderer, strolling beggar, tramp …

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  • 3gab|er|lun|zie — «GAB uhr LUHN zee, LOON yee», noun. Scottish. 1. a wallet or pouch carried by beggars for receiving contributions. 2. a strolling beggar; mendicant: »barking at a gaberlunzie (Scott). ╂[origin uncertain] …

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  • 4Four Times of the Day — is a series of four paintings by English artist William Hogarth. Completed in 1736, they were reproduced as a series of four engravings published in 1738. They are humorous depictions of life in the streets of London, the vagaries of fashion, and …

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  • 5A Jovial Crew — A Jovial Crew, or the Merry Beggars is a Caroline era stage play, a comedy written by Richard Brome. First staged in 1641 and first published in 1652, it is generally ranked as one of Brome s best plays, and one of the best comedies of the… …

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  • 6theatre, Western — ▪ art Introduction       history of the Western theatre from its origins in pre Classical antiquity to the present.       For a discussion of drama as a literary form, see dramatic literature and the articles on individual national literatures.… …

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  • 7literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… …

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  • 8Durrus and District History Modern — Durrus is an area of West Cork in Ireland. For earlier history, see Durrus and District History1900 2000 James Gilhooley M.P. and Elections 1910James Gilhooley MP (he had been a merchant in Bantry, and was jailed on a number of occaasions under… …

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  • 9Schnorrer — Schnor rer, n. [Yiddish, fr. G. schnurrer, fr. schnurren to hum, whir, hence, from the sound of the musical instrument used by strolling beggars, to beg.] Among the Jews, a beggar. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] …

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  • 10William Hogarth — Infobox Person name= William Hogarth image size=220px caption= William Hogarth, self portrait, 1745 birth date= birth date|1697|11|10|df=y birth place= London, England, Great Britain death date= death date and age|1764|10|26|1697|11|10|df=y death …

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