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"ref": "1824, Walter Scott, chapter 12, in Redgauntlet",
"text": "'I will leave you to yourselves, gentlemen,' said the provost, rising; 'when you have done with your crack, you will find me at my wife's tea-table.' ¶ 'And a more accomplished old woman never drank catlap,' said Maxwell, as he shut the door […]",
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"ref": "1864, Charles Reade, chapter XIV, in Very Hard Cash, page 75",
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"ref": "1907, George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara, act II",
"text": "I suppose you think I come here to beg from you, like this damaged lot here. Not me. I don't want your bread and scrape and catlap.",
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"ref": "1934, George Orwell, chapter 4, in Burmese Days",
"text": "All European food in Burma is more or less disgusting—the bread is spongy stuff leavened with palm-toddy and tasting like a penny bun gone wrong, the butter comes out of a tin, and so does the milk, unless it is the grey watery catlap of the dudh-wallah.",
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