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CURTAILS,

whose Practice is to cut off Pieces of Silk, Cloth, Linnen or Stuff, that hang out at the Shop-Windows of Mercers, Drapers, &c. as also sometimes the Tails of Womens Gowns, their Hoods, Scarves, Pinners, - if richly Lac'd.

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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.

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CUNNING-Shaver
CUP-SHOT
CUP of the Creature
CURLE
CURSITORS
CURTAILS
CURTAIL'D
CURTAIN-Lecture
CURTEZAN
CUT

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Curtails in the 1811 Vulgar Tongue

Also see examples in Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes collected by John S. Farmer (1896).