Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022.
Oxford grove
subs. phr. (old).—See quot.
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1608. DEKKER, Dead Tearme [NARES]. Conscience goes like a fool in pyed colours, the skin of her body hanging so loose, that like an OXFORD GLOVE, thou wouldst swear there wer a false skin within her.
