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linen draper; linen
noun
a newspaper UK, 1857
Rhyming slang.- Obviously what the lines call a national disaster of the first magnitude had occurred[.] — Charles Raven, Underworld Nights, p. 74, 1956
- Marchmare’s had more publicity in the linens[.] — Derek Raymond (Robin Cook), The Crust on its Uppers, p. 23, 1962
- [Y]et another con perpetuated on the Great British Public, just like those geezers in the linens who dole out the “Spot the Ball” largesse[.] — Andrew Nickolds, Back to Basics, p. 55, 1994
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