Peculiars (The Court of)
.A branch of the Court of Arches having jurisdiction over the “peculiars” of the archbishop of Canterbury. (See above.)
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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.