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verb (bowdleris, ing)
- To remove those parts considered offensive, vulgar or adult in nature.
- the bowdlerised version of the text, while free of vulgarity, was also free of flavour
Etymology: From w:Thomas Bowdler, Thomas Bowdler who in 1818 published a censored version of Shakespeare, expurgating "...those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family."
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