Budge
is lambskin with the wool dressed outwards, worn on the edge of capes, bachelorsʹ hoods, and so on. Budge Row, Cannon Street, is so-called because it was chiefly occupied by budge-makers.
“O foblishness of men! that lend their ears
To those budge-doctors of the stoic fur.”
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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.