Pitt’s picture n.
a bricked-up window.
Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue ms. additions n.p.: Pitt’s Picture. A Window stopt up on the inside, to save the Tax imposed in that Gentleman’s Administration. | ||
, | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue (2nd, 3rd edn). | |
Lex. Balatronicum. | ||
Life and Trial of James Mackcoull 32: The place alloted by our hero for the most valuable stolen property he received, was a recess formed by the shutting up of a window, termed by him Pitt’s picture. | ||
Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. |