Usually means: Editor who censored Shakespeare's works.
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▸ noun:  Thomas Bowdler (11 July 1754 – 24 February 1825) was an English physician known for publishing The Family Shakespeare, an expurgated edition of William Shakespeare's plays edited by his sister Henrietta Maria Bowdler.


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smut-peddler, libertine, pervert, obscenist, vulgarian

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