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Southern Lights and Shadows choose

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[UK] F. Fowler Southern Lights and Shadows 38: The ladies [...] are addicted to [...] trained hair, embellished with two or three C’s – aggravators they call ’em – running over the temple .
at aggerawator, n.
[UK] F. Fowler Southern Lights and Shadows 52: They serve bread-and-cheese, salads, and sandwiches [...] The vernacular for these stands thus: Bread and cheese . . . Roll and rind. Salad . . . Nebuchadnezzar.
at roll and rind, n.
[UK] F. Fowler Southern Lights and Shadows 53: To pay for liquor for another is to ‘stand,’ or to ‘shout,’ or to ‘sacrifice.’ The measure is called a ‘nobbler,’ or a ‘break-down’.
at break-down, n.1
[UK] F. Fowler Southern Lights and Shadows 15: The battle of ‘old-handism’ against ‘new-chumism’ is nor everlastingly waging in Victoria as it is in New South Wales.
at new chum, n.
[UK] F. Fowler in Southern Lights and Shadows (in Baker 1945) 167: Maiden Peppermint or cloves.
at maiden, n.
[UK] F. Fowler Southern Lights and Shadows 52: The following are a few of the names of favourite beverages [...] A Stone-fence . . . Ginger-beer and brandy.
at stone fence (n.) under stone, adj.
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