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[UK] London Gazette 2370 4: A person [...] in a dark grey Cloth Coat [...] Breeches of beggar’s plush [F&H].
at beggar’s plush (n.) under beggar, n.
[UK] London Gazette No. 2450/4: A Fair easie going Caravan, with a very handsome Roof Brass Work, good Seats, Glasses on the sides to draw up, that will carry 18 Persons.
at caravan, n.
[UK] Lit. Gaz. Jan. n.p.: The Yorkshire Magazine does justice to our prognosticastions, and is not a Yorkshire bite.
at Yorkshire bite (n.) under Yorkshire, adj.
[UK] London Lit. Gaz. 12 Feb. 97/2: They might get men to be sure, who know nothing about the business: and a pretty higgledy piggledy concern they’d make of a decent black job like this. I should like to see a set of these new ones lifting a coffin.
at black job (n.) under black, adj.
[UK] Lit. Gaz. 13 Apr. 223/2: It is, to speak in the writer’s fashion, sloppy and slangy.
at slangy, adj.
[UK] London Literary Gazette 26 June in DSUE (1984).
at comflogsticate, v.
[UK] ‘Punch & Judy’ in London Lit. Gaz. 9 Feb. 84/2: Punch: There, get up, Judy my dear; I won't hit you any more. None of your sham-Abram.
at sham-abram, n.
[UK] Lit. Gaz. 28 Apr. 268/1: Around me were various casks of ample dimensions, some of which bore the title of ‘max,’ ‘Old Tom,’ ‘the cream of the valley,’ and others too numerous to mention.
at cream of the valley (n.) under cream, n.1
[UK] London Lit. Gaz. 19 Jan. 35/2: Ravishing thy Russian ice; and thy new ‘Souffle’ quite the potato.
at potato, n.
[UK] Carlyle q. in Lit. Gaz. 2 Mar. 156/3: This beautiful Establishment, or Oasis of Purity intended for the Devil’s regiments of the line .
at devil’s regiment (n.) under devil, n.
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