The Only Use of
alderman
in
Romeo and Juliet
- She is the fairies' midwife; and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep: Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners' legs; The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers; The traces, of the smallest spider's web; The collars, of the moonshine's watery beams; Her whip, of cricket's bone; the lash, of film; Her waggoner, a small grey-coated gnat, Not half so big as a round littleā¦†
Scene 1.4
Definition:
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(alderman) a member of a municipal legislative body (as a city council) in some towns and cities in the U.S., Canada and Australia