Simon Legree


Si·mon Le·gree

noun \ˌsī-mən-lə-ˈgrē\

Definition of SIMON LEGREE

: a slave owner who has Tom flogged to death in Harriet B. Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin

First Known Use of SIMON LEGREE

1853

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