The Only Use of
tartar
in
Romeo and Juliet
- The date is out of such prolixity: We'll have no Cupid hoodwink'd with a scarf, Bearing a Tartar's painted bow of lath, Scaring the ladies like a crow-keeper; Nor no without-book prologue, faintly spoke After the prompter, for our entrance: But, let them measure us by what they will, We'll measure them a measure, and be gone.†
Scene 1.4
Definition:
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(tartar as in: tartar on the teeth) calcified deposits on the teeth, formed by the continuous presence of dental plaque (also called calculous)