a nobody, bow, decoration, flunky, jackstraw, mantle, old school tie, rostrum, sphragistics, thug
Definitionn. a person used as a cover for some questionable activity
Last update: September 8, 2015
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In early ships a figurehead was always placed prominently at the head. [Please select]
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The promissione ducale was binding on the doge and his family, and could be, and frequently was, altered at each new election, a commission, Inquisitori sopra it doge def unto, being appointed to scrutinize the actions of the deceased doge and to add to the new oath whatever provisions they thought necessary to reduce the dogeship to the position of a mere figurehead in the state. [Please select]
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It is a ship--of the old, old-fashioned build--with high stem and stern, and monstrous figurehead. [Please select]
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Is she merely a figurehead to take orders from the visiting physician. [Please select]
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He despised all loiterers along the primrose paths, and John Valiant was but a decorative figurehead. [Please select]
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A carver in the neighborhood engaged to make the figurehead. [Please select]
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All at once Jason bethought himself of the galley's miraculous figurehead. [Please select]
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Three masts--yes, that must be it--and the gilt figurehead of Hercules. [Please select]
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