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Alderman (An)

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A cant term for half-a-crown. An alderman as chief magistrate is half a king in his own ward; and half a crown is half a king.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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