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- noun UK, informal A
film assigned anage rating of 15, those under 15 not being permitted to view it.
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Examples
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"fifteener," pasted down with dozens of others, varying in value, you cannot bless the memory of the antiquarian shoemaker, John Bagford.
The Enemies of Books William Blades 1857
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Last comes my special treasure, -- my fifteener, -- my book as old as
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 Various
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So that if a chestnut was a fiver, and it beat a tenner, it became at one leap a fifteener.
Dr. Jolliffe's Boys Lewis Hough
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When here and there throughout those volumes you meet with titles of books now either unknown entirely, or of the greatest rarity; when you find the Colophon from the end, or the ` ` insigne typographi '' from the first leaf of a rare ` ` fifteener, '' pasted down with dozens of others, varying in value, you cannot bless the memory of the antiquarian shoemaker, John Bagford.
The Enemies of Books 1888
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