pegtops

The eggs of the water-pheasant are in shape like pegtops without the peg.

A Bird Calendar for Northern India Douglas Dewar 1916

Pardon, where they sold picture post-cards and pegtops, was two walking miles across the fields and woods.

Actions and Reactions Rudyard Kipling 1900

There was the Broadway swell in patent-leather boots and trousers strapped tightly down, in the style the boys irreverently called pegtops.

A Little Girl in Old New York Amanda Minnie Douglas 1873

Bruce had hinted to him that his usual garb might look a little formal and odd at a theatre, and had persuaded him to come to his own egregious Camford tailor, Mr Fitfop, who, as a particular favour to his customer Bruce, produced with suspicious celerity the cut-away coat and mauve-coloured pegtops, in which unwonted splendour Hazlet was now arrayed.

Julian Home 1867

The usual toy of the children is the bow and arrow, with which they are seldom expert; they are said also to spin pegtops like the English, climb a greased pole, and run round with a beam turning horizontally on an upright, to which it is attached by

Himalayan Journals — Complete 1864

If aware of it, you ought not to have suppressed such an important testimony to my really having been 'very successful' in drawing the teeth of the pegtops, though you thought them so firmly fixed.

A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II) Augustus De Morgan 1838

Those among George's critics, too, who are sticklers for exactitude in the "abstract and brief chronicle of the time" complain that his dandies always wear straps to their tight pantaloons in lieu of pegtops; that their vests are too short and their coat-collars too high; that they wear bell-crowned hats, and carry gold-knobbed canes with long tassels; and that they are dressed, in short, after the fashion of the year one, when Brummell or Pea-Green Haynes commanded the _ton_.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 Various

“I’m not at all sure we shan’t go back to crinolines and pegtops.

To Let 2004

"I'm not at all sure we shan't go back to crinolines and pegtops.

Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

"I'm not at all sure we shan't go back to crinolines and pegtops.

The Forsyte Saga, Volume III. Awakening To Let John Galsworthy 1900