Prince Albertn.1
/ˌprɪns ˈalbət/, U.S. /ˌprɪns ˈælbərt/ Originally U.S. Now chiefly historical.
A kind of frock coat or tailcoat made fashionable by Prince Albert; (also) a suit having such a coat. Sometimes attributive, as Prince Albert coat or suit.
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1873 Galaxy Apr. 543/2 I thrust the slip into the breast-pocket of my Prince Albert.
1884 I. M. Rittenhouse Maud (1939) 270 I ran out and ushered Mr Lyons in, gotten up to kill in his Prince Albert coat.
1895 Montgomery Ward Catal. Spring & Summer 273/1 Prince Albert Suits.
1898 R. Kipling Day's Work 249 A man in a black Prince Albert, without a collar, came up.
1919 Ladies' Home Jrnl. July 19/2 Instinctively I looked about him for revolvers. There were none, not even the slightest bulge at the hips of the Prince Albert coat he wore.
1941 W. C. Handy Father of Blues vii. 91 Glittering young devils in silk toppers and Prince Alberts.
1967 C. O. Skinner Madame Sarah (new ed.) viii. 147 Amid the..city coats, Prince Alberts and pin-striped trousers, Sarah looked vainly for a single woman.
1988 Times (Nexis) 28 Feb. The ancient menswear chain, Brooks Brothers, which opened its first store in downtown Manhattan in 1818, has suited up at least three American presidents on their big day... It even made the Prince Albert coat which Abraham Lincoln was wearing when he was shot.
1995 G. Vidal Palimpsest 25 Once or twice a week one Dr. Huffmann, wearing a Prince Albert, would arrive to administer a shot.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
Prince Albertn.2
/ˌprɪns ˈalbət/, U.S. /ˌprɪns ˈælbərt/ 1. slang (originally and chiefly Australian). In plural. Strips of cloth wound round the toes or feet and worn, esp. by tramps or swagmen, inside boots in place of socks; toerags. Occasionally also: rough boots worn by tramps, etc. Now historical.
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1893 K. Mackay Out Back (ed. 2) ii. v. 191 With bent shoulders..they ‘mouched’ along,..showing glimpses of brown, unwashed skin above the frayed edges of their ‘Prince Alberts’, the toes of their bluchers gaping wide.
1903 ‘T. Collins’ Such is Life i. 31 Unlapping from his feet the inexpensive substitute for socks known as ‘prince-alberts’.
1945 S. J. Baker Austral. Lang. 105 Prince Alfreds or Prince Alberts as synonyms for toe-rags. These terms developed from the malign suggestion that the Prince Consort was so poor when he came to England to marry Queen Victoria that he wore toe-rags instead of socks.
1945 S. J. Baker Austral. Lang. 105 Rough lace-up boots were also known as Prince Alberts in Queensland in the closing years of last century.
1974 B. Kidman On Wallaby 58 I was introduced to ‘Prince Alberts’ as a substitute for socks..long strips of calico, rubbed with a little suet to minimise chafing and wrapped around the foot after the style of puttees.
1993 Australasian Post (Melbourne) 7 Aug. 38/2 Many swagmen wore ‘Prince Alberts’, but not many carried a ‘Royal Alfred’.
2. Originally and chiefly British. A metal ring inserted into the end of a man's urethra and out through the glans penis (also called dressing ring); (also) this form of body piercing.
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1977 E. J. Trimmer et al. Visual Dict. Sex (1978) 60/2 A ring through the glans..is known as the Prince Albert or dressing ring. This type, according to tradition, was used in Victorian times to secure the penis in the right or left trouser leg.
1992 Guardian 4 Dec. ii. 9/4 One woman came in and had her inner labia and nipples done, then the next week her husband had a Prince Albert—he was so pleased with what he'd seen on his wife.
1997 Escape Mar. 47/1 I have a PA (Prince Albert—a ring in the end of your todger) and tongue piercing.
2002 Loaded July 52/3 Either a Prince Albert.., an Ampallang..or a foreskin piercing are all more than adequate to lead the way.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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