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Svengali

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Svengali a person who exercises a controlling or mesmeric influence on another, especially for a sinister purpose, from the name of a musician in George du Maurier's novel Trilby (1894) who trains Trilby's voice and controls her stage singing hypnotically; his influence over her is such that when he dies her voice collapses and she loses her eminence.

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Svengali

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Svengali, see Trilby.

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Svengali

Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

Svengali •Ali, alley, Allie, Ally, bally, dally, dilly-dally, farfalle, galley, Halley, mallee, Mexicali, pally, Raleigh, rally, reveille, sally, tally, valley •Chablis • brambly •badly, Bradley, Hadlee, madly, sadly •scraggly •dangly, gangly •crackly • Shankly • Bramley •Manley, manly, Osmanli, Stanley •slatternly •Langley, tangly •amply • Ashley •Attlee, fatly, patly •aptly • shilly-shally •Bali, barley, Cali, Carly, Charlie, Dali, Diwali, finale, gnarly, Gurkhali, Kali, Kigali, Mali, Marley, marly, Pali, parley, snarly, Somali, Svengali, tamale •Barclay, Berkeley, clerkly, sparkly •Darnley • ghastly • Hartley • Barnsley •blackguardly

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	Svengali, another byword in the Lexicon of Jewish villainy. Magazine article from: Midstream; 11/1/2005
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