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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—L

Led Captain

(A). An obsequious person, who dances attendance on the master and mistress of a house, for which service he has a knife and fork at the dinner table. He is led like a dog, and always graced with the title of captain.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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