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driz

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Noun

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driz (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete, slang) Lace.
    • 1851, Henry Mayhew, London labour and the London poor, page 387:
      One old lady used to give 3s. for three yards of driz, and it was well enough understood, without no words, that a pint of brandy was part of them three yards.

References

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  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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