| Webster's Online Dictionary |
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Blue Bottle | Literature | 1: "You proud varlets, you need not be ashamed to wear blue, when your master is one of your fellows."- Dekker: The Honest Whore (1602). 2: A beadsman, a policeman; so called from the colour of his dress. Shakespeare makes Doll Tearsheet denounce the beadle as a "blue-bottle rogue." 3: "I'll have you soundly swinged for this, you blue-bottle rogue."- Shakespeare: 2 Hen. IV., act v. 4. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
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