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Wuthering Heights vocabulary
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sconce
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synonyms: mazard, poll, bonce, noddle, coxcomb ???
tags: [anatomy] [archaic] [slang]
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Definition:head; skull
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Uses:
You are master,—I confess it. You do know how to handle your fists; I never knew anything like it. Thunder and lightning! how your thumps fell on my sconce,—I never felt anything like it. Yours is a new game, and you must teach it to me."
Eugene Sue. The Mysteries of Paris, volume 1 of 6
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to knock him about the sconce with a dirty shovel,
William Shakespeare. Hamlet
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