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[UK] Trollope South Africa II 458: Bluebacks as they were called were printed, and the bankers issued little scaps of paper, – ‘good-fors’ as they were called – representing minute sums of money.
at bluebacks (n.) under blue, adj.1
[UK] Trollope South Africa II 458: If he were to decline [...] there would be all the horrors of Bumbledom before him.
at bumble, n.1
[UK] Trollope South Africa II 458: Our duty to the kafir of course is to civilize him.
at kaffir, n.
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