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Pipelet

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A concierge or French door-porter; so called from a character in Eugène Sue’s Mysteries of Paris.

 

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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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Pink (A)
Pink of Perfection (The)
Piony or Peony
Piou-piou
Pious
Pip
Pipe
Pipe Rolls or Great Rolls of the Pipe
Pipe of Peace
Pipeclay
Pipelet
Piper
Piper that Played before Moses (By the)
Piper’s News or Hawker’s News, Fiddler’s News
Piping Hot
Pippa Passes
Piræus
Pirie’s Chair
Pirithoös
Pis-aller (French)
Pisanio