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Duresley

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You are a man of Duresley, i.e. a great liar and cheat. Duresley is a market-town in Gloucestershire, famous for its broadcloth manufactory. Now called Dursley. (See Fuller Worthies.) The wordcabbage,” connected with tailors, seems to confirm the notion that our forefathers had no very high opinion of their honesty.

 

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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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