butter-ham
(archaic) One of two strips of trim on either side of a cloak.
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#1·Apr 27, 2026
(archaic) One of two strips of trim on either side of a cloak.
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#2·Apr 27, 2026
(North, _, Yorkshire) a person who is overly ostentatious in their dress or actions.
A cloak, half a yard shorter than the Breeches, not through lin'd, but fac'd as far as 'twas turned back, with a pair of frugal butter-hams.
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#3·Apr 27, 2026
(obsolete) A slice of buttered bread.
Faith, I was within ams-ace of being found out ; for one night at a mum-house, where I was eating a butter-ham and pickled herrings, with some of the states, and where I was giving my self airs of greatness and interest in my country, sw…
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