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- noun Plural form of
pickle-herring .
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For my part, if I'd been a magistrate, you shouldn't have walked off with the boy till you'd washed yourself, not if you'd gone down on your hands and knees for it; and him with his face shining all over like a little Moses on the Mount, which does the lady credit if she's the one you saw; though how they can dress children up like pickle-herrings it beats me.
The Adventures of Harry Revel Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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