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- An expurgation of a work, also known as a bowdlerization, fig-leaf edition or censorship by political correctness is a form of censorship that involves...
- biographer, Thomas Bowdler the Younger. From his name derives the eponym verb bowdlerise or bowdlerize, meaning to expurgate or to censor something through the...
- Released as a single, "Not Now John", with its chorus of "**** all that" bowdlerised to "Stuff all that"; Melody Maker declared it "a milestone in the history...
- and editor of the Family Shakespeare (1818), inspiration of the term bowdlerisation Thomas Bowdler the Younger (1782-1856), Church of England priest and...
- and to the excavations of Calleva Atrebatum, together with a full-size bowdlerised replica of the Bayeux Tapestry, an art collection, and galleries relating...
- to **** and death, and many versions have appeared following efforts to bowdlerise this song for performance in public ceremonies. In private, students will...
- family-friendly intentions. The Bowdler name is also the origin of the term "bowdlerise", meaning to omit parts of a work on moral grounds. The first edition...
- Goose rhymes. In the early and mid-20th centuries, this was a form of bowdlerisation, concerned with some of the more violent elements of nursery rhymes...
- tale contained within the Introduction to the Fourth Day. Tale IX.x is bowdlerised, but possibly because the translator was working from faulty sources...
- and counter-claims regarding selectivity, nationalism, appropriation, bowdlerisation and racism. Sharp was born in Camberwell, Surrey, the eldest son of...