Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who belongs to the municipal district called a dozen.
- noun A ward constable; a city constable.
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Examples
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This notwithstanding, you may be sure that she had highly perfumed and elegantly attired herself for the night, and shone with desire for embraces, for desire lent her a high colour which greatly improved her complexion; and in spite of her feeble resistance she was, like a young girl, carried by assault in her royal couch, where the good lady and her young dozener, embraced each other.
Droll Stories — Complete Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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This notwithstanding, you may be sure that she had highly perfumed and elegantly attired herself for the night, and shone with desire for embraces, for desire lent her a high colour which greatly improved her complexion; and in spite of her feeble resistance she was, like a young girl, carried by assault in her royal couch, where the good lady and her young dozener, embraced each other.
Droll Stories — Volume 2 Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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