The Devil's Dictionary: Blackguard

Updated May 14, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by Ambrose Bierce
BIRTH
BLANK-VERSE

BLACKGUARD

-n.

A man whose qualities, prepared for display like a box of berries in a market - the fine ones on top - have been opened on the wrong side. An inverted gentleman.

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