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Fugleman Atlantic Fyoo Gul Mun Noun Leads Group Company Party

Front fugleman \FYOO-gul-mun\
Back noun
One who leads a group, company, or party.

[From German Flügelmann (flank man), from Flügel (wing) + Mann (man). A fugleman was once a soldier placed usually on a flank during drill to serve as a guide for his company. Earliest documented use: 1804.]

"H.L. Mencken was trying single-handedly to drag American culture out of Puritanism and into the twentieth century, to act as fugleman on this side of the Atlantic for a literary and artistic renaissance comparable to the one then taking place on the other side." - Jonathan Yardley; The Sage of Baltimore; The Atlantic Monthly (New York); Dec 2002.

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