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Brewer's: Billy
A policeman's staff, which is a little bill or billet.
A pocket-handkerchief. “A blue billy” is a handkerchief with blue ground and white spots
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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