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Lady Bountiful

a charitable woman, esp. one who gives ostentatiously

Etymology: after a character in Farquhar's comedy The Beaux' Stratagem (1707)

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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