subs. phr. (colloquial).—1.  A scratch on the face; hence TO PUT ONE’S TRADE-MARK UPON ONE = to claw the face: spec. of women.

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  c. 1876.  Music Hall Song, ‘Father, take a run.’

        I know what the old woman is when she is drunk,
  She pawns everything in the place;
And if I correct her for what she has done,
  She DRAWS HER TRADE-MARK DOWN MY FACE.

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  2.  (servants’).—A cap.

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