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† ˈholliglass Obs.
Also 6 holi-, holyglasse.
[A corruption of howleglas, owliglasse, owlglass, f. Ger. Eulenspiegel.]
An Owlglass, a buffoon.
1583Leg. Bp. St. Androis 51 in Satir. Poems Reform. xlv, Now Holyglass, returning hame, To play the sophist thought no schame. 1596Blake Serm. in G. Hickes Spirit of Popery (1680) 53 The Privy-Council were Holliglasses, Cormorants, and men of no Religion. a1639Spottiswood Hist. Ch. Scotl. vi. (1677) 425. |