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 Badge of Poverty.Badger (A). 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Badge-men.
 
Alms-house men; so called because they wear some special dress, or other badge, to indicate that they belong to a particular foundation.   1
       
“He quits the gay and rich, the young and free,
Among the badge-men with a badge to be.”
       
Crabbe: Borough.
 


 Badge of Poverty.Badger (A). 

 
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