An alderman above the chair; so called because his proper costume is a cloak furred with gray amis. (Hutton: New View of London, intro.)
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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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