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Red-shanks

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A Highlander; so called from a buskin formerly worn by them; it was made of undressed deer’s hide, with the red hair outside.

 

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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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Red Laws (The)
Red-letter Day
Red Man
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Red Rag (The)
Red Republicans
Red Rose Knight (The)
Red Rot (The)
Red Sea
Red-shanks
Red Snow
Red Tape
Red Tape
Red Tapism
Red Tincture
Redan
Redder (The)
Redding-straik (A)
Redgauntlet
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