cockalorum
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Born with no great passion for "the high cockalorum of heroism," De Forest wrote frankly of the nuisance of being shot at, of the multiple woes of a company-grade officer's life.
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Dizzy Gillespie, the high cockalorum of bop, was getting top billing at the rival Strand Theater.
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In the thunderous heyday of Prohibition gangsterism, Roger the Terrible was the jaunty cockalorum of northwest Cook County.
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The Daily Telegraph thought his cockalorum De Guiche in Cyrano de Bergerac "a remarkable feat."
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For "cockalorum," be it noted, we frequently substituted the name of some particularly obnoxious master.
From My Days of Adventure The Fall of France, 1870-71 by Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred
