subs. phr. (paupers’).—See quot.
1871. Daily Telegraph, 24 Oct., Henry Melville’s (the pauper) passionate, ‘beutiful,’ for Stepney Workhouse is a grotesque reflex of Marie Stuart’s pathetic farewell to France. Is the skilly we wonder most ‘beutiful’ at Stepney, or are the CLODS AND STICKINGS unusually free from bone.
