Green’s Dictionary of Slang
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23 June letter in S. Leslie Mrs Fitzherbert (1939) 260: Lady Charlotte Osborne having gone off with Mr Sackville is the last gossip. The Duke of Leeds refused his consent so they were asked at St George’s three Sundays and married there yesterday with the ladysmaid for bridesmaid. So much for a pattern young lady! at pattern, adj.
S. Leslie Mrs Fitzherbert 45: Parson Rosenhagen would be compelled to take up spiritual duties in Botany Bay. It was high treason to wed or cause to wed the heir to the Throne. In any case Rosenhagen was well out of it.at out of it, adj.1
S. Leslie Mrs Fitzherbert 84: It was too tempting to lay out Pitt gasping and to gather the reins of debate under a whip hand.at lay out, v.
S. Leslie Mrs Fitzherbert 10: The Fitzherberts dated from an antiquity which made most of the English nobility seem mushrooms.at mushroom, n.
S. Leslie Mrs Fitzherbert 88: On March 27, 1788, [caricaturist James] Gillray produced his most famous skit on the affair ‘Wife or No Wife or a Trip to the Continent’.at skit, n.1
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