1736 Canting Dictionary / N / NOSE-Gent [person]
a Recluse or Nun.
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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.
Nose Gent in the 1811 Vulgar Tongue
Also see examples in Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes collected by John S. Farmer (1896).
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