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Budge

is lambskin with the wool dressed outwards, worn on the edge of capes, bachelorsʹ hoods, and so on. Budge Row, Cannon Street, is so-called because it was chiefly occupied by budge-makers.

“O foblishness of men! that lend their ears

To those budge-doctors of the stoic fur.”


Milton: Comus, 706, 707.

 

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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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