| 单词 | white bonnet |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswhite bonnet ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > buying > buyer > [noun] > bidder > one who runs up bidding goad1608 setter1699 white bonnet1760 puffer1765 sweetener1823 jolly1856 runner-up1860 floor man1928 1760 Decisions Court of Session, 1752–6 130 This too common practice of employing white bonnets at roups, was a manifest cheat. 1815 in R. Bell Treat. Conveyance Land (1815) 168 What is commonly called a white bonnet, that is, a person employed by the seller to raise the price, without any intention of buying for himself. 1867 T. Carlyle Reminisc. (1881) I. 205 Hazlitt..was at the Fonthill Abbey sale..‘hired to attend as a white bonnet there,’ said he with a laugh. < as lemmas |
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