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Brewer's: Knights of the Spigot
Landlords of hotels, etc.; mine host is a “knight of the spigot.”
“When an old song comes a oross us merry old knights of the spigot it runs away with our discretion.” —
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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