subs. (thieves’).—A seller of lace; also a receiver of stolen material. [From DRIZ + FENCE.]
1851–61. H. MAYHEW, London Labour and the London Poor, vol. I., p. 429. Among street-people the lace is called driz, and the sellers of it DRIZ-FENCERS.
subs. (thieves’).—A seller of lace; also a receiver of stolen material. [From DRIZ + FENCE.]
1851–61. H. MAYHEW, London Labour and the London Poor, vol. I., p. 429. Among street-people the lace is called driz, and the sellers of it DRIZ-FENCERS.
