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- verb Present participle of
strout .
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Examples
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Peacock-like, rustling, and strouting with them in the Churches; yea, and in open publike places, as if they were ordinary secular persons, to have their pride more notoriously observed.
The Decameron 2004
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Instead of a cape he made a buskin; for a farthingale he shaped a montero cap; and thinking to make a cloak, he'd cut out a pair of your big out-strouting Swiss breeches, with panes like the outside of a tabor.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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Instead of a cape he made a buskin; for a farthingale he shaped a montero cap; and thinking to make a cloak, he’d cut out a pair of your big out-strouting
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Instead of a cape he made a buskin; for a farthingale he shaped a montero cap; and thinking to make a cloak, he’d cut out a pair of your big out-strouting
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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With the same humorous eye he observes the Englishmen returned to London from Paris, "whom their gate and strouting, their bending in the hammes, and shoulders, and looking upon their legs, with frisking and singing do speake them Travellers ....
English Travellers of the Renaissance Clare Howard
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