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Vocabulum; or The Rogue's Lexicon

Name: Vocabulum; or The Rogue's Lexicon
Author: George W. (George Washington) Matsell

by George W. (George Washington) Matsell

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Vocabulum; or The Rogue's Lexicon Compiled from the Most Authentic Sources

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by Chris Curnow, Ernest Schaal, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

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2016-06-13

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Public domain in the USA.

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Cant -- Dictionaries English language -- New York (State) -- New York -- Slang -- Dictionaries Rogues and vagabonds -- New York (State) -- New York -- Language -- Dictionaries Americanisms -- New York (State) -- New York -- Dictionaries Cant -- New York (State) -- New York -- Dictionaries New York (N.Y.) -- Languages -- Dictionaries

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George W. (George Washington) Matsell

1811–1877

A pioneering New York police official and colorful chronicler of city underworld slang, he left behind one of the best-known 19th-century rogues' dictionaries. His work offers a vivid glimpse of crime, language, and street life in old New York.

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Vocabulum; or The Rogue's Lexicon

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