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Ruffian Hall

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That part of West Smithfield which is now the horse-market, where “tryals of skill were plaid by ordinary ruffianly people with sword and buckler.” (Blount, p. 562.)

 

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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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Rudiger
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Rudolstadt (La Comtesse de)
Rudra
Rue
Rue
Rue
Ruffe
Ruffian Hall
Rufus (The Red)
Ruggiero
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Rule, Britannia
Rule Nisi
Rule of Thumb (The)
Rule of the Road (The)
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