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1921 Glasgow Herald 9 Apr. 6 Steelworkers and bankers, ship-platers and ‘brass-platers’, ‘workers’ and ‘parasites’, we shall all have to take off our coats.
1927 Scots Observer 16 July 9/1Brass-platers and fund-eaters are living spaciously in the southern counties of England.