1849 15 Sept. 3/4 An anxious father, of the yellow-plush school, once wrote the following letter to a boarding-school mistress.
1884 12 Jan. 2/9 It is interesting..to find a member of the ‘yellow plush profession’ coming forward in the interest of sanitary reform.
1894 F. C. Baylor i. 12 That air of command which flunkeys interpret as a right to ‘lord’ it over the whole yellow-plush tribe.