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Doing Banting. Reducing superfluous fat by living on meat diet, and abstaining from beer, farinaceous food, and vegetables, according to the method adopted by William Banting, a London cabinet-maker, once a very fat man (born 1796, died 1878). The word was introduced about 1864.

 

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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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Bannatyne Club
Banner
Banneret
Bannière
Bannière
Banns of Marriage
Banquet
Banquo
Banshee
Bantam
Banting
Bantling
Banyan
Bap or Baphomet
Baptes
Baptist
Bar
Bar
Bar
Bar
Bar (Trial at)

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