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The Fashions
The Pretender
Charles Edward Stuart: a.k.a. Bonnie Prince Charlie
The Slang
Cant and Expressions
Slang not included in the above list:
- Make a leg: A bow, esp. in the phrase to make a leg; probably from drawing the leg backward in bowing. [Obs.][1913 Webster]
- High Toby: The high toby, the high-road the low toby, the by-road. A highwayman is a “high tobyman;” a mere footpad is a “low tobyman.”
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