Russian Coffee-house (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Russian Coffee-house

The Brown Bear in Bow-street, Covent Garden, a house of call for thief-takers and runners of the Bow street justices.

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

Rushers * Rusty

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Nathan Bailey's 1736 Dictionary of canting and thieving slang

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