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Doll (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Doll

Bartholomew doll; a tawdry, over-drest woman, like one of the children’s dolls at Bartholomew fair. To mill doll; to beat hemp at Bridewell, or any other house of correction.

Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.

Doggess * Dolly

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About

Francis Grose was independently wealthy, having inherited money from his father, a jeweller. Finding himself overspending, he published a number of books; his Provincial Glossary seems to have been the starting-point for the Vulgar Tongue reproduced here.

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