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The trees had been shorn of their frail leaves, and the misty night was closing fast in upon the dull and short day; but the candles glittered at the shop windows, and leery-light-the-lamps was brushing about with his ladder in his oxter, and bleezing flamboy sparking out behind him.
The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824
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The trees had been shorn of their frail leaves, and the misty night was closing fast in upon the dull and short day; but the candles glittered at the shop windows, and leery-light-the-lamps was brushing about with his ladder in his oxter, and bleezing flamboy sparking out behind him.
The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824
slumry commented on the word flamboy
Many years ago I took my young husband a cup of hot coffee before he was fully awake in the morning. He roused himself a bit and said something like "Oh that's so hot...careful or you will have Stephen flamboy."
September 26, 2015