Falstaff

Noun

Meaning

a dissolute character in Shakespeare's plays

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Examples

The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour. Bernard Crick

The Falstaff people, romantics all, went for it. They were so anxious to find out what I was going to do that they could hardly bear to wait out the two weeks. I was rather anxious to find out what I was going to do, too. Bill Veeck

A goodly portly man, i' faith, and a corpulent; of a cheerful look, a pleasing eye, and a most noble carriage; and, as I think, his age some fifty, or, by'r Lady, inclining to threescore; and now I remember me, his name is Falstaff. William Shakespeare

Additionally, humour was thought to include a combination of ridiculousness and wit in an individual; the paradigmatic case being Shakespeare's Sir John Falstaff. Source: Internet

Although the prospect of a new opera from Verdi aroused immense interest in Italy and around the world, Falstaff did not prove to be as popular as earlier works in the composer's canon. Source: Internet

Act 2 A room at the Garter Inn Falstaff is alone at the inn. Source: Internet

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