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Vulgar, malicious, jealous women. The characters are taken from Miss Burney’s novel called Evelina. One of the brothers is a Cockney snob.
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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.
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