or audit, subs. phr. (university).—A special brew of ale: orig. for use on audit days.

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  1823.  BYRON, The Age of Bronze, xiv. But where is now the goodly AUDIT-ALE.

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  1837.  R. H. BARHAM, The Ingoldsby Legends (A Lay of St. Dunstan).

        The ‘Trinity AUDIT ALE’ is not come-at-able,
As I’ve found to my great grief when dining at that table.

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  1872.  OUIDA, The General’s Match-making, 34. Are you going to smoke and drink AUDIT on that sofa all day?

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  1876.  TREVELYAN, Life of Macaulay (1884), iv. 127. A glass of the AUDIT ALE, which reminded him that he was still a fellow of Trinity.

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