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Basimecu: contemptuous term for a Frenchman 2H6 IV. vii. 31 “Mounsieur Basimecu, the dauphin of France.” ∥ Still applied to Italian organgrinders, with the pronunciation ‘boz imacu’, in some parts of Warwickshire.
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    • William Shakespeare, The Second Part of Henry VI, 4.7
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