Makes sense. I went seeking the term while reading George Elliot’s Middlemarch and the line “… people who are no more Featherstones than a merry-Andrew at a fair openly reckoning on your property coming to them. “
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Kim Day:
September 1st, 2015 at 11:24 am
Makes sense. I went seeking the term while reading George Elliot’s Middlemarch and the line “… people who are no more Featherstones than a merry-Andrew at a fair openly reckoning on your property coming to them. “