Brewer's: Hunchback

Styled My Lord. Grose says this was done in the reign of Richard III., when many deformed men were made peers; but probably the word is the Greek lordos (crooked).

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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