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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who wears a gown of rug; hence, a low person.
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His study is not great but continual, and consists much in the sitting up till after midnight in a rug-gown and a night-cap, to the vanquishing perhaps of some six lines; yet what he has, he has perfect, for he reads it so long to understand it, till he gets it without book.
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle
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