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Definition of Thomas De Quincey from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Thomas De Quincey

/ˌtɒməs də ˈkwɪnsi/

/ˌtɑːməs də ˈkwɪnsi/

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(1785-1859) an English writer who regularly took the drug opium and described its effects on him in his best-known book, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821). He was a friend of the poets Wordsworth and Coleridge.

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