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Date "BEEFINGTON" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1898. (references)

Specialty Definition: BEEFINGTON

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LiteratureBeefington or Milor Beefington, a character in Canning's mock tragedy, The Rovers, a burlesque, in the Anti-Jacobin, on the sentimental German dramas of the period. Casimere is a Polish emigrant, and Beefington an English nobleman, exiled by the tyranny of King John. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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