Brewer's: Ogleby

(Lord). A superannuated nobleman who affects the gaiety and graces of a young man. (Clandestine Marriage, by Garrick and Colman the Elder.)

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