Brewer's: Black Horse

The 7th Dragoon Guards, or “the Princess Royal's D.G.” Their “facings” are black. Also called “Strawboots,” “The Blacks.”

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