Brewer's: Centre

In the Legislative Assembly The Centre were the friends of order. In the Fenian rebellion, 1866, the chief movers were called Head Centres, and their subordinates Centres.

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