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1865 ‘L. Carroll’Alice's Adventures in Wonderland vii. 107 The Dormouse..said, ‘It was a treacle-well.’
1909 Blackwood's Mag. May 605/1 A University College varies its facial expression about as frequently as the Sphinx and about as violently as a treacle-well.