The old 17th Foot, whose badge, a royal tiger, was granted them for their services in India (1802–23). Now the Leicester Regiment.
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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.