Brutus
/ˈbɹutəs/ noun C2- A kind of wig.
- A hairstyle brushed back from the forehead, popular at the time of the French Revolution, when it was an affectation to admire the Ancient Romans.
Plural Brutuses
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“Well, Decapitator, Guardian of the State, Royalist, Brutus, what is the matter?” said one.
The Cæsar’s pageant shorn of Brutus’ bust Did but of Rome’s best son remind her more,
He was the first to jump on shore; and had he dared, he would, like Lucius Brutus, have “kissed his mother earth.” It was dark, but at eleven o’clock the moon rose in the midst of the ocean, whose every wave she silvered, and then, “ascending high,” played in floods of pale light on the rocky hills of this second Pelion.
“The same thing that happened to Brutus the night before the battle of Philippi; I have seen a ghost.”
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