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 Becarre, Bemol.Becket’s Assassins. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Becasse.
 
You goose; you simpleton; you booby. Bécasse is a woodcock. “C’est une becasse,” he or she is a fool.   1
 


 Becarre, Bemol.Becket’s Assassins. 

 
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