"flagrante delicto" meaning in English

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  "pos": "adv",
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          "ref": "1887, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 2, in The Misadventures Of John Nicholson, New York: John W. Lovell, page 13",
          "text": "And just then there came a knock and a scurrying; the police, so lamentably absent from the Calton Hill, appeared upon the scene; and the party, taken flagrante delicto, with their glasses at their elbow, were seized, marched up to the police office, and all duly summoned to appear as witnesses in the consequent case against that arch-shebeener, Colette.",
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      "ipa": "/fləˌɡɹæn.teɪ dɪˈlɪk.təʊ/"
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  "word": "flagrante delicto"
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  "pos": "adv",
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          "text": "And just then there came a knock and a scurrying; the police, so lamentably absent from the Calton Hill, appeared upon the scene; and the party, taken flagrante delicto, with their glasses at their elbow, were seized, marched up to the police office, and all duly summoned to appear as witnesses in the consequent case against that arch-shebeener, Colette.",
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