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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Dirty Half-Hundred.
 
The 50th Foot, so called from the men wiping their faces with their black cuffs. Now called “The Queen’s Own.”   1
 


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