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Old King Cole
     
Old King Cole
a character in a nursery rhyme (=an old song or poem for young children). The rhyme goes: Old King Cole/Was a merry old soul,/And a merry old soul was he;/He called for his pipe,/And he called for his bowl,/And he called for his fiddlers three.
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