Pyg ‧ ma ‧ li ‧ on /pɪɡˈmeɪliən/ BrE AmE
(1913) a play by George Bernard Shaw in which Professor Henry Higgins teaches a poor ↑ cockney woman, Eliza Doolittle, how to speak and behave like an ↑ upper-class lady. The play was made into a ↑ musical (=a play that uses singing and dancing to tell a story) in 1956 and a successful film musical in 1964, both called My Fair Lady .