The Devil's Dictionary: Rostrum

Updated May 14, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by Ambrose Bierce
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ROSTRUM

-n.

In Latin, the beak of a bird or the prow of a ship. In America, a place from which a candidate for office energetically expounds the wisdom, virtue and power of the rabble.

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