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Mother Goose definition

Mother Goose

  1. the imaginary narrator of a collection of tales (c. 1697) by Charles Perrault
  2. the imaginary creator of a collection of nursery rhymes first published (1765?) in London

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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