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Barristersʹ Gowns

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“Utter barristers wear a stuff or bombazine gown, and the puckered material between the shoulders of the gown is all that is now left of the purse into which, in early days, the successful litigant … dropped his … pecuniary tribute … for services rendered” (Notes and Queries, 11 March, 1893, p. 124). The fact is that the counsel was supposed to appear merely as a friend of the litigant. Even now he cannot recover his fees.

 

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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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Barrier Treaty
Barrikin
Barring-out
Barrister
Barristers Bags
Barristers Gowns
Barry Cornwall, poet
Barsanians
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Bartholo
Bartholomew (St.)
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Barthram’s Dirge (in Sir Walter Scott’s Border Minstrelsy)
Bartoldo
Bartole
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