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Quotation dates: 1898
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CONNIE, n.2 A corner. School-boy slang.Edb. 1898 J. Baillie Walter Crighton 15:
Coming downstairs again, the boys arrived once more in the square. Ross now led Walter over to what he called "Mammie's [matron's] Connie."Edb. 1898 J. Baillie Walter Crighton 254:
The line of sealloped carving on the "connie" could be climbed.
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