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Love for Money choose

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[UK] D’Urfey Love for Money III ii: The Common Title now-a-days for all the Bullies, Shop-lifts, Robbers, Pimps, Panders and Rakehels about the Town; any tall Fellow that can but get a red Coat on’s Back is dubb’d a Captain presently.
at captain, n.
[UK] D’Urfey Love for Money IV iii: This Warren of Conney Burrows [i.e. a girls’ boarding school].
at cony-burrow (n.) under cony, n.
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