SIMON-PURE


Meaning of SIMON-PURE in English

/suy"meuhn pyoor"/ , adj.

real; genuine: a simon-pure accent.

[ 1710-20; short for the real Simon Pure, alluding to the victim of impersonation in Susanna Centlivre's play A Bold Stroke for a Wife (1718) ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .