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Candour
(Mrs.). A type of female backbiters. In Sheridan's
comedy of The School for Scandal.
“The name of `Mrs. Candour' has become one of those formidable
by-words, which have had more power in putting folly and ill-nature
out of countenance than whole volumes of remonstrance.” —T. Moore.
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