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Soldiering

A barrack term for furbishing up of accoutrements.

“I got the screws last night, but I was busy soldiering till too late.” —J. H. Ewing: Story of a Short Life, p. 35.

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

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