subs. (thieves’).—Money: specifically gold. [From the colour.] See ACTUAL and GILT.

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  1854.  DICKENS, Hard Times, I. vi. If you want to cheek us, pay your OCHRE at the doors, and take it out.

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  1880.  Punch’s Almanack, 12.

        Lor! if I’d the OCHRE, make no doubt
I could cut no end of big pots out.
Call me cad? When money’s in the game,
Cad and swell are pooty much the same.

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  1890.  Punch, 22 Feb. If I was flush of the OCHRE, I tell yer I’d make the thing hum.

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