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ˈfiddle-case
1. The case in which a fiddle is kept. Also attrib., fiddle-case boots: boots as big as a fiddle-case.
1647Ward Simp. Cobler 27 To spend their lives in making fidle-cases for futulous womens phansies. 1762Goldsm. Cit. W. xli, Heads..as empty as a fiddle-case. 1837Lockhart Scott (1839) VIII. 71 Half a dozen tall footmen each bearing a fiddle case. 1852R. S. Surtees Sponge's Sp. Tour lxvi. 536 Tweed trousers thrust into fiddle-case boots.
2. pl. (See quot.).
1878–86Britten & Holland Plant-n., Fiddle-cases, Rhinanthus crista-galli. |