/ · 1894 Brewer’s · M · Magot (French)
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Money, or rather a mass of secreted money; a corruption of imago, the “image and superscription” of coined money.
“Là il vola de même, revint à Paris avec un bon magot.”—La Gazette Noire. 1784, p. 270.
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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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