blood-red fancy

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blood-red fancy (plural blood-red fancies)

  1. (obsolete, slang) A red neckerchief worn at prizefights to show support for a contender.
    • 1845, George William M. Reynolds, The Mysteries of London, volumes 3-4, page 85:
      Roll of snow, six snooze cases, three narps, and a blood-red fancy.
    • 1930, Helen Simpson, Desires and Devices, page 263:
      But the witness persisted, and pulled out handkerchief after handkerchief, offering Birds'-eye Wipes and Blood-red Fancies with all the fervour of the good salesman loth to miss an opportunity; […]

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References[edit]

  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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