Rough Music (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Rough Music

Saucepans, frying-paps, poker and tongs, marrow-bones and cleavers, bulls horns, &c. beaten upon and sounded in ludicrous processions.

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

Rough * Rouleau

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Nathan Bailey's 1736 Dictionary of canting and thieving slang

John S. Farmer's collection of canting songs and slang rhymes

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