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Durhamite
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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a person supporting the reforms advocated by Lord Durham in his Report of 1839.
Quotations
1839
(Patriot) Whose heart's as false as his liver's white, / Be sure that man is "A Durhamite".
1937
A volley of stones put the "Durhamites" to flight, one being carried off wounded, and others hiding in cellars, in the woods, or among the rushes of the lake-shore.