- 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...
-
sanitized edition in an
article for The
English Review entitled "Bowdler
Bowdlerised". In the
scathing and oft-sarcastic piece,
Whiteing utterly denounces...
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corresponding to
standard German "geschwind",
meaning "quickly". The
bowdlerised text of the
early printed editions reads:
Another semi-bowdlerized adaptation...
- and to the
excavations of
Calleva Atrebatum,
together with a full-size
bowdlerised replica of the
Bayeux Tapestry, an art collection, and
galleries relating...
- has
nothing to do with
wheat or with ear, but is an
altered (perhaps
bowdlerised) form of white-****,
which refers to its
prominent white rump. The four...
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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...
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There were once many such
street names in England, but all have now been
bowdlerised. In the city of York, for instance, Grap**** Lane—grāp is the Old English...
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belief shared by
Vaughan Williams and
other composers.
Sharp and
Marson bowdlerised some of
their song texts,
especially those containing references to ****ual...
- tale
contained within the
Introduction to the
Fourth Day. Tale IX.x is
bowdlerised, but
possibly because the
translator was
working from
faulty sources...
- biographer,
Thomas Bowdler the Younger. From his name
derives the
eponym verb
bowdlerise or bowdlerize,
meaning to
expurgate or to
censor something through the...
