See plain Dunstable on Wiktionary
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"text": "Because I value Mr. Solmes as my friend, you treat him the worse — That's the plain Dunstable of the matter, Miss! — I am not such a fool but I can see that.",
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"ref": "1899, Sidney Herbert Burchell, The Duke's Servants: A Romance, page 188:",
"text": "‘Fancy roams over half the world in lovers' sighs, and plain Dunstable in gallantry belongs only to the Puritan ; but never have I met such fantastic wooing and cooing since I went in for daggering of arms myself.’",
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"text": "For the plain Dunstable of the matter is' (and it was remarkable how soon, on discovering that they were of the same sex, her manner changed and she dropped her plaintive, appealing ways), 'the plain Dunstable of the matter is, that I 'm not in the mood for the society of the other sex tonight.",
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