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red-nose
1. a. attrib. Red-nosed. b. One who has a red nose, a toper.
1589Nashe Anat. Absurd. Wks. (Grosart) I. 34 Our new found songs.., which euery rednose Fidler hath at his Fingers end. [1591― Prognost. ibid. II. 162 The ancient order of the redde noses.] 1636W. Durham in Ann. Dubrensia (1877) 10 Their red-nose pimple-faced deitie. 1638R. Brathwait Barnabees Jrnl. iii. (1818) 137 Down the staires..To a knot of brave boyes fell I, All red-noses, no dye deeper. 1798Nemnich Polyg. Lex., Nat. Hist. v. 867 Red nose kidneys; a sort of potatoes.
2. A name locally given to various species of molluscs.
1864Gosse in Gd. Words 191 The fishermen..use them for bait, applying to them the..expressive soubriquet of Red-noses [Note. Saxicava rugosa]. Ibid. 353 The cottagers about Paignton well know the ‘red-noses’, as they call the great cockles [Note. Cardium rusticum]. |