Ellenborough Lodge (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Ellenborough Lodge

The King’s Bench Prison. Lord Ellenborough’s teeth; the chevaux de frize round the top of the wall of that prison.

Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.

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