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Strephon

1. Traditional masculine name used for the male lover in pastoral poetry.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Book VI, chapter ix

     As when two doves, or two wood-pigeons, or as when Strephon and Phyllis (for that comes nearest to the mark) are retired into some pleasant solitary grove, to enjoy the delightful conversation of Love […]

   • 1855, Frederick Lawrence, The life of Henry Fielding

     ...those palmy days of pastoral revelry;—when every lover was a Damon or a Strephon, and his beloved a Delia or a Celia.

   • 1862, Theodore Winthrop, Edwin Brothertoft

     I am still sick with his sentimentality of a Strephon. He is a flippant coxcomb.

   • 1901, The Atlantic Monthly (volume 87)

     All their tunes were gay and lively ones, and the younger men moved their feet to the music, while a Strephon at the lower end of the lists seized upon a blooming Chloe, and the two began to dance "as if," quoth the Colonel, "the musicians were so many tarantula doctors."