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 Gray.Gray Man’s Path. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Gray Cloak.
 
An alderman above the chair; so called because his proper costume is a cloak furred with gray amis. (Hutton: New View of London, intro.)   1
 


 Gray.Gray Man’s Path. 

 
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