| Webster's Online Dictionary |
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Birchin Lane | Literature | 1: I must send you to Birchin Lane, i.e. whip you. The play is on birch (a rod). 2: "Passing through Birchin Lane amidst a camp-royal of hose and doublets, I took... occasion to slip into a captain's suit- a valiant buff doublet stuffed with points and a pair of velvet slops scored thick with lace."- Middleton: Black Book (1604). 3: A suit in Birchin Lane. Birchin Lane was once famous for all sorts of apparel; references to second-hand clothes in Birchin Lane are common enough in Elizabethan books. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
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