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Ripon spurs. The best spurs were made at Ripon, in Yorkshire.
“If my spurs be not right Rippon.”
“He dishes up the spurs in his helpless address, like one of the old Border chiefs with an empty larder.” —The Daily Telegraph.
To win his spurs. To gain the rank of knighthood. When a man was knighted, the person who dubbed him presented him with a pair of gilt spurs.
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