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M.B|ɛm biː|
[Abbreviation of ‘Mark of the Beast’ (see mark n.1 11 c, beast n. 7), used with jocular allusion to the popular view that this garment was a badge of ‘Popery’.]
M.B. waistcoat: a kind of waistcoat with no opening in front, worn by Anglican clergymen (originally, c 1840, only by adherents of the Tractarian party, but afterwards by many belonging to other schools).
1853Conybeare in Edinb. Rev. Oct. 315 Who does not recognise..the stiff and tie-less neckcloth, the M.B. coat and cassock waistcoat [etc.]. 1874[see mark n.1 11 c]. 1876Mrs. Oliphant Phœbe Jun. xvi. (1877) 114 He smiled superior at the folly which stigmatised an M.B. waistcoat. |