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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See gallipot.

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  • He had somehow about him an air of imperious good-humour, and a royal frankness and majesty, although he was only heir-apparent to twopence-halfpenny, and but one in descent from a gallypot.

    The History of Pendennis 2006

  • He had somehow about him an air of imperious good-humour, and a royal frankness and majesty, although he was only heir-apparent to twopence-halfpenny, and but one in descent from a gallypot.

    The History of Pendennis William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

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