in Dryden’s Hind and Panther, means the Roman Catholic clergy. So called from an establishment of priests in the private chapel at White-hall. The nuns are termed “sister partlet with her hooded head.”
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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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