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- noun Plural form of
Norroy .
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I would willingly leave him to the heralds college, which the philosophy of the sansculottes (prouder by far than all the Garters, and Norroys, and Clarencieux, and Rouge Dragons, that ever pranced in a procession of what his friends call aristocrats and despots) will abolish with contumely and scorn.
Paras. 40-59 1909
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College, which the philosophy of the _sans-culottes_ (prouder by far than all the Garters, and Norroys, and Clarencieux, and Rouge-Dragons that ever pranced in a procession of what his friends call aristocrats and despots) will abolish with contumely and scorn.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
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