Brewer's: Minuit

(2 syl.). “Enfants de la messe de minuit, ” pickpockets. Cotgrave gives “night-walking rakehells, such as haunt these nightly rites only to rob and play the knaves.”

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