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Date "Blimber" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1841. (references) |
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| Literature | Blimber (Miss ). A blue-stocking, who knows the dead languages, and wears learned spectacles. She is the daughter of Dr. Blimber, a fossil school-master of the high and dry grammar type (Dickens: Dombey and Son.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
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| Mrs Cornelia Blimber | Mrs. Cornelia Blimber is a prim school-matron in Dickens's Dombey & Son. (references) | ||
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