Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A blue-stocking; a literary person.
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Examples
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They went, and we gave fifteen true men for one poor devil of a curst tight blue-leg.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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They went, and we gave fifteen true men for one poor devil of a curst tight blue-leg.
Vittoria — Volume 1 George Meredith 1868
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They went, and we gave fifteen true men for one poor devil of a curst tight blue-leg.
Vittoria — Complete George Meredith 1868
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