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 Tyburn Ticket.T’Year—i.e. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Tybur’nia (London).
 
Portman and Grosvenor Squares district, described by Thackeray as “the elegant, the prosperous, the polite Tyburnia, the most respectable district of the habitable globe.”   1
 


 Tyburn Ticket.T’Year—i.e. 

 
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