| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| Browne, Charles Farrar |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  broun |
| DATES: | 1834–1867 |
| VARIANTS: | Pen name Artemus Ward (wôrd) |
| American humorist who used backwoods characters and local dialect to comment on current events in his fictional tales of an itinerant showman.
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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