1736 Canting Dictionary / C / COURT-Holy-Water [thing]
fair Speeches without Performance.
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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.
Court Holy Water in the 1811 Vulgar Tongue
Also see examples in Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes collected by John S. Farmer (1896).