Word: douffet
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...Fantasy floods in where fact leaves a vacuum," Miss Lettice Douffet declares in the first act of Lettice and Lovage. Lettice Douffet, played by the inimitable Julie Harris, has inherited the love of theater from her actress-mother, and she demonstrates it passionately...
...employment as a tourguide of old British manors comes to an end when her employer, Lottie Schoen, discovers Douffet's habit of embellishing history when she finds it too dull...
Schoen also discovers, in the course of firing Douffet, a kindred spirit. The unlikely pair become friends premised on a shared hatred of the ugly, the petty and the "mere...
...Lettice Douffet is a sometime actress reduced to working as a rather fanciful tour guide in an ugly and, truth to tell (which she rarely does), unimportant English mansion called Fustian House. Faced with the unpleasant fact that hardly anything consequential or colorful ever happened there, she makes things up. To her, this is putting history to the best possible use, as inspirational contrast to what she sees as the grayness of modern life. Her employers at a preservation trust naturally disagree, and she is tossed...
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