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Word: copperfield (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Usage:

...Like David Copperfield's Aunt Betsey Trotwood, all literary aunts should be brisk and, if possible, maiden. But to be really successful they must also have a dull, dim nephew as a foil. Also, it is the aunts' tragedy that their stories are invariably written by their dim nephews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hamlet's Aunt | 1/19/1970 | See Source »

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