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Robin Hood and the avenging bandido Murrieta, as well as novelist Baroness Orczy’s entirely fictional Scarlet Pimpernel, the secret identity of the British popinjay who saves French aristocrats from the Reign of Terror.
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Washington Post, 1 Jan. 2021
There was a tiny popinjay of a man with a Windsor knot and a pink tie.
—Rebecca Keegan, VanityFair.com, 21 Jan. 2017
Washington Post, 1 Jan. 2021
There was a tiny popinjay of a man with a Windsor knot and a pink tie.
—Rebecca Keegan, VanityFair.com, 21 Jan. 2017
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“Popinjay.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/popinjay. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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