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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—K

Kilmansegg

(Miss). An heiress of great expectations with an artificial leg of solid gold. (Thomas Hood A Golden Legend.)

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