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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—B

Black as a Newgate Knocker

A Newgate knocker is the fringe or lock of hair which costermongers and thieves twist back towards the ear.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894

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