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- An expurgation of a work, also known as a bowdlerization, is a form of censorship that involves purging anything deemed noxious or offensive from an artistic...
- biographer, Thomas Bowdler the Younger. From his name derives the eponym verb bowdlerise or bowdlerize, meaning to expurgate or to censor something through the...
- 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...
- and counter-claims regarding selectivity, nationalism, appropriation, bowdlerisation and racism. Sharp was born in Camberwell, Surrey, the eldest son of...
- biographical do****ents and that they published them in incomplete and bowdlerised editions (claiming, among other things, hiding Ramakrishna's homoerotic...
- 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...
- performed, and when it did appear it was presented in one of several bowdlerised versions. After World War II it regained a place in the standard operatic...
- 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...
- Street" and "Fish Street". In some locations, the former name has been bowdlerised, as in the City of York, to the more acceptable "Grape Lane". The somewhat...