Meaning of Lord Mayor's fool | Babel Free

Definitions

An imaginary personage said to like everything that is good, and plenty of it.

Examples

“The Clown is a London cockney, with a prodigious eye to his own comfort and muffins,—a Lord Mayor's fool, who loved "everything that was good;" and Columbine is the boarding-school girl, ripe for running away with, and making a dance of it all the way from Chelsea to Gretna Green.”

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