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单词 weekly accounts
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weekly accounts
weekly accounts (also weekly accompts) Nautical slang Obsolete (a name given to) the small square white patches on each side of a midshipman's collar.
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1805 Public Characters xxviii. 501 A young man who hopes one day to exchange his blue coat and ‘weekly accounts’, for the dress of a commander in chief.
1819 J. H. Vaux Memoirs I. 69 The midshipmen proceeded to cut off the weekly accompts from the coat I had on.
1852 C. Dickens Bleak House (1853) xvii. 162 You never heard them called the young gentlemen, my dears, and probably would not understand allusions to their pipeclaying their weekly accounts.
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