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Sir Roger de Coverley
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The name of a country dance, surviving chiefly now as a *reel in Scotland, which was borrowed by *Steele and *Addison for a character in the early numbers of the *Spectator. Their Sir Roger de Coverley, supposedly descended from the inventor of the country dance, is an early example of the eccentric but fundamentally humane country gentleman who was to become part of the image of 18C England.
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