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beatrix potter

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Pot⋅ter

[pot-er]
–noun
1. Be⋅a⋅trix [bee-uh-triks] , 1866–1943, English writer and illustrator of children's books.
2. Paul, 1625–54, Dutch painter.
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Pot·ter   (pŏt'ər)   
British writer and illustrator. Her animal stories include The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1900) and The Tailor of Gloucester (1902).
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potter  (v.)
1530, "to poke again and again," frequentative of obsolete poten "to push, poke," from O.E. potian "to push" (see put). Sense of "occupy oneself in a trifling way" is first recorded 1740.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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