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A perambulating advertisement displayer, with an advertisement board before and behind.
“The Earl of Shaftesbury desired to say a word on behalf of a very respectable body of men, ordinarily called ‘sandwiches,ʹ”—The Times, March 16th, 1867.
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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.