| Webster's Online Dictionary |
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Beau trap | Literature | A loose pavement under which water lodges, and which squirts up filth when trodden on, to the annoyance of the smartly dressed. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
| Beau trap | Slang in 1811 | BEAU TRAP. A loose stone in a pavement, under which water lodges, and on being trod upon, squirts it up, to the great damage of white stockings; also a sharper neatly dressed, lying in wait for raw country squires, or ignorant fops. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
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