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Newgate(dictionary)

Newgate (iou)



Newgate noun. L16.
[See below.]
Used attrib. to designate things associated with Newgate, a celebrated London prison pulled down in 1902-3.
Newgate bird arch. a jailbird. Newgate Calendar Hist. a publication containing accounts of prisoners in Newgate. Newgate frill, Newgate fringe a fringe of beard worn under the chin. Newgate hornpipe arch. a hanging. Newgate novel a 19th-cent. genre of picaresque novels involving criminal characters; a novel of this genre. Newgate novelist a writer of Newgate novels. Newgate school the Newgate novelists collectively.