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† long-acre Obs.
Apparently a usual proper name for a long narrow field containing an acre. (Now preserved as the name of a well-known London street.) In quots. allusive = one's estate or patrimony.
1607Middleton Trick to catch the Old One i. i, But where's Long-acre? in my vncle's conscience, which is 3 yeares voyage about. 1608Yorksh. Trag. i. ix, In a word, Sir, I have consumed all, played away long-acre. 1659Lady Alimony ii. i. B 3 b, It will run like Quicksilver over all their Husbands Demains: and in very short time make a quick dispatch of all his Long acre. |