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Brewer's: Red Boots
A pair of red boots. A Tartar phrase, referring to a custom of cutting the skin of a victim round the upper part of the ankles, and then stripping it off at the feet. A Tartar will say, “…Brewer's: Red-breasts
Bow Street runners, who wore a scarlet waistcoat. “The Bow Street runners ceased out of the land soon after the introduction of the new police. I remember them very well as standing about…Brewer's: Red Button
(A). A mandarin of the first class, whose badge of honour is a red button in his cap. “An interview was granted to the admiral [Elliot] by Kishen, the imperial commissioner, the third man…Brewer's: Red Cap
(Mother). An old nurse “at the Hungerford Stairs.” Dame Ursley or Ursula, another nurse, says of her rival- “She may do very well for skipper's wives, chandlers' daughters, and such like,…Brewer's: Red Coats
in fox-hunting (or scarlet) is a badge of royal livery, fox-hunting being ordained by Henry II. a royal sport. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Red CockRed…Brewer's: Red Cock
The red cock will crow in his house. His house will be set on fire. “`We'll see if the red cock craw not in his bonnie barn-yard ae morning.' `What does she mean?' said Mannering ... `Fire…Brewer's: Red Comyn
Sir John Comyn of Badenoch, son of Marjory, sister of King John Balliol; so called from his ruddy complexion and red hair, to distinguish him from his kinsman “Black Comyn,” whose…Brewer's: Red Cross
(The). The badge of the royal banner of England till those of St. Patrick and St. Andrew were added. “The fall of Rouen (1419) was the fall of the whole province ... and the red cross of…Brewer's: Red Feathers
(The). The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. They cut to pieces General Wayne's brigade in the American War, and the Americans vowed to give them no quarter. So they mounted red feathers…Brewer's: Red Flag
(A). (i) In the Roman empire it signified war and a call to arms. (ii) Hoisted by British seamen, it indicates that no concession will be made. As a railway signal, it intimates danger,…Trending
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