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Falstaff: Meaning and Definition of

Fal•staff

Pronunciation: (fôl'staf, -stäf), [key]
— n.
  1. the jovial, fat knight of brazen assurance and few scruples in Shakespeare's Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2, and The Merry Wives of Windsor.
  2. (italics) an opera (1893) by Giuseppe Verdi, with a libretto by Arrigo Boito based on the Shakespearean character.
Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
See also:
falsity Falstaffian
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