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Boswell

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1. Boswell - Noun

2. Boswell - Proper noun

Meaning

a devoted admirer and recorder of another's words and deeds

Scottish author noted for his biography of Samuel Johnson (1740-1795)

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Boswell is pleasant and gay, For frolic by nature designed; He heedlessly rattles away When company is to his mind. James Boswell

I am lost without my Boswell. Arthur Conan Doyle

Every suit I wear is custom-made by a guy named Waraire Boswell in L.A. Raphael Saadiq

According to Boswell, he once told Sir Joshua Reynolds that 'he made it a rule when in company never to talk of what he understood'. Source: Internet

After an irritating and fruitless two-month search, Boswell left for England, promising, as Louis understood it, not to publish a word until Louis returned. Source: Internet

Although critics like Donald Greene argue about its status as a true biography, the work became successful as Boswell and his friends promoted it at the expense of the many other works on Johnson's life. Source: Internet

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