Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who commits adultery with another man's wife.
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Examples
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Jealousy is worse; her fits present to a man, like so many bubbles in a basin of water, twenty several crabbed faces, many times makes his own shadow his cuckold-maker.
The White Devil 2007
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Jealousy is worse; her fits present to a man, like so many bubbles in a basin of water, twenty several crabbed faces, many times makes his own shadow his cuckold-maker.
The White Devil 2007
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He was the manifest ruffian, wencher, whoremonger, and most infamous cuckold-maker that ever breathed.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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He was the manifest ruffian, wencher, whoremonger, and most infamous cuckold-maker that ever breathed.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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_ No, you are not acquainted with him, the more's the pity; you do not know him, under this disguise, for the greatest cuckold-maker in all Spain.
The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 06 John Dryden 1665
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_ Limberham must have found me out; that _fe-fa-fum_ of a keeper would have smelt the blood of a cuckold-maker: They say, he was peeping and butting about in every cranny.
The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 06 John Dryden 1665
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And you, young apple-squire, and old cuckold-maker;
Every Man in His Humor Ben Jonson 1605
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He was the manifest ruffian, wencher, whoremonger, and most infamous cuckold-maker that ever breathed.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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