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Beggar description

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Verb
  1. 1
    Synonym of beggar belief.

Etymology

Coined by William Shakespeare in 1607 in "Antony and Cleopatra," act 2, scene 2: : For her own person, : It beggared all description: she did lie : In her pavilion—cloth-of-gold, of tissue— : O'erpicturing that Venus where we see : The fancy outwork nature.

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