dosser

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"My brain and your 'eart now together, would make a rare Dives," says "Dosser."

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, October 15th 1887 by Various

That's the doctrine of "Dannel the Dosser," a broken-down toff, as I know; And if Dannel ain't right, I'm a Dutchman.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, October 15th 1887 by Various

Dosser hain't no more genuine savvy, he hain't, than a 'aporth o' snuff; But he's up to the lips-like in Latin, and similar old-fashioned stuff.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, December 26, 1891 by Various

"Only child?" inquired Tom Dosser, while the boys crowded about the two Vermonters, and got up a low buzz of sympathetic conversation.

From Romance of California Life by Habberton, John

Dosser, dos′er, n. a rich hanging of tapestry for the walls of a hall or of a chancel: a pannier.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various