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CAMPAIGN-COAT,

in a Canting Sense, the ragged, tatter'd, patch'd Coat, worn by Beggars and Gypsies, in order to move Compassion.

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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.

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CACKLING-CHEATS
CACKLING-FARTS
CALLE
CAMBRIDGE-FORTUNE
CAMESA
CAMPAIGN-COAT
CANARY-BIRD
CANE upon ABEL
CANK
CANNIKIN
A CANT

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The Vulgar Tongue originally collected by Grose, 1811.

Also see examples in Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes collected by John S. Farmer (1896).