The Anthony Comstocks, the Thomas Bowdlers and Victorian hypocrisy - the predecessors of our present obscenity laws - had yet to come upon the stage.
"I'm in Marsport Without Hilda" (1957; a bowdlerized version of this story appeared in the collection Nine Tomorrows)
The term derives from Thomas Bowdler's 1818 edition of William Shakespeare's plays, which he reworked in order to make them more suitable for women and children.
Older and more puritanical translations, such as the King James Version, often bowdlerized this passage using more euphemistic terms.
At the request of Spanish authorities, he wrote a bowdlerized version in Spanish (the Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España), but his original work, the Florentine Codex, was never published.
Its English name has nothing to do with wheat or ears, but is an altered (perhaps bowdlerised) form of white-arse, which refers to its prominent white rump.
In 1301 AD, a scholar named Maximus Planudes put together a bowdlerized version of the Cephalan book, which became very popular in the Greek part of the οiκουμένη.
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