cabotin

Is it his supreme object to make an impression at any cost, to force, like another Nero, the popular applause by arts more becoming to a _cabotin_ than a sovereign?

William of Germany Stanley Shaw

"Pah!" said an old cabotin, after one of these word-pictures.

The Soul of the War Philip Gibbs 1919

The learned author evades plumbing the psychological springs of this astounding and almost invariable vanity, this endless bumptiousness of the _cabotin_ in all climes and all ages.

Damn! A Book of Calumny 1918

Uncle Adolph was quite right: he knew how close the ordinary actor and opera-singer was to the cabotin.

Richard Wagner Runciman, John F 1913

But Geyer, we must remember, was very far away indeed from the cabotin.

Richard Wagner Runciman, John F 1913

Is it his supreme object to make an impression at any cost, to force, like another Nero, the popular applause by arts more becoming to a cabotin than a sovereign?

William of Germany Shaw, Stanley 1913

When she dismisses Oscar Wilde as a cabotin and yet thinks that the law should not have meddled with him -- is not that the man and the situation in a nutshell?

Alone Norman Douglas 1910

You would have treated me, had you been less polite, as a Philistine and a cabotin.

Cosmopolis — Complete Paul Bourget 1893

Uncle Adolph was quite right: he knew how close the ordinary actor and opera-singer was to the _cabotin_.

Richard Wagner Composer of Operas John F. Runciman 1891

But Geyer, we must remember, was very far away indeed from the _cabotin_.

Richard Wagner Composer of Operas John F. Runciman 1891