Lord Fauntleroy

adjective

: resembling or suggestive of Lord Fauntleroy (as in style of clothing or haircut)

Word History

Etymology

after Lord Fauntleroy, boy hero of Frances Hodgson Burnett's novel Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886)

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