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"etymology_text": "Britain pre-1561. From patients claiming, genuinely or not, to be temporarily discharged from the Abraham ward at Bethlem Royal Hospital (also known as Bedlam)—a psychiatric hospital in London, Kingdom of England—for the purpose of begging.\nPossibly an allusion to a story in Luke 16, in which the beggar Lazarus ends up in Abraham's bosom.\nFirst attested in The Fraternity of Vagabonds (1561) by John Awdely.",
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