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Street Arabs. The houseless poor; street children. So called because, like the Arabs, they are nomads or wanderers with no settled home.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.