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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A junior barrister; a stuff gown. See
stuff , a.
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As he stood smiling there in the motley crowd, with his pipe in his hand, and clad in the rough pea-jacket and wideawake that he had put on for his stroll, who would have supposed him to be Charles Bradford Raye, Esquire, stuff-gownsman, educated at Wintoncester, called to the Bar at Lincoln's -
Life's Little Ironies Thomas Hardy 1884
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