A minute and official statement of some fact.
“We (says the procès-verbal) asked him what use he had made of the pistol [i.e. We, says the official report, etc.].”—The Times (Law Report).
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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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