Brewer's: Candour

(Mrs.). A type of female backbiters. In Sheridan's comedy of The School for Scandal.

“The name of `Mrs. Candour' has become one of those formidable by-words, which have had more power in putting folly and ill-nature out of countenance than whole volumes of remonstrance.” —T. Moore.

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