English playwright who collaborated with Francis Beaumont on romantic tragicomedies, including Philaster (1610) and The Maid's Tragedy (1611). |
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n. One who makes arrows. [Middle English fleccher, from Old French flechier, from fleche, arrow, of Germanic origin; see pleu- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] |
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