,—a quality that will carry a patriot to Botany Bay, a vulgar prejudice: in high life it means the debauching your neighbour’s wife or daughter, killing your man, and being a member of the Jockey Club, and Brooke’s gaming-house.
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Entry taken from A Political Dictionary, by Charles Pigott, 1795.
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