Regency Words: Robbed
A reader was looking for some Regency slang meaning robbed: Grose’s Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1823) The above are two examples you will Continue
A reader was looking for some Regency slang meaning robbed: Grose’s Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1823) The above are two examples you will Continue
Moniker/Name Valerie Source of Question Research Your Question If a Regency man (say, Charles Bingley) wanted to say something is smashing, terrific, etc., what would Continue
Just re-read Heyer’s _Cotillion_ and twice it uses the idiom “eel-backed”–can’t find that anywhere, does anyone have a notion what is meant? Thanks for the Continue
What does “throw a flourish mean”? In the book I am reading it seems to mean the sex act. Is this an authentic Regency slang Continue