Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022.
Northumberland
LORD NORTHUMBERLAND’S ARMS, subs. phr. (old).—See quot.
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1823. GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue [EGAN], s.v. NORTHUMBERLAND. LORD NORTHUMBERLAND’S ARMS; a black eye: so called in the last century.
