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[UK] Thackeray Paris Sketch Book I 53: ‘Pogson is a commercial traveller.’ [...] ‘A bagman, sir! and what right has a bagman to gamble!’.
at bagman, n.
[UK] Thackeray Paris Sketch Book I 166: Let the big-wigs despise us.
at bigwig, n.
[UK] Thackeray Paris Sketch Book I 143: Well, Marlborough was no chicken when he began to show his genius.
at no chicken under chicken, n.
[UK] Thackeray Paris Sketch Book I 23: The Hotel de Lille, which may be described as a ‘second chop’ Meurice.
at first chop, adj.
[UK] Thackeray Paris Sketch Book I 113: I say, that when Raphael painted this picture, two years before his death, the spirit of painting had gone out of him [...] it was time he should die!! There — the murder is out!
at murder, n.
[UK] Thackeray Paris Sketch Book I 34: ‘Ma’am,’ says I, ‘will you take a glass of Sham—just one?’.
at sham, n.2
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