Word: dupplin
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Juggled Beds. That was the public Bertie. Privately, he liked to sneak out with cronies like Lord Hardwicke (who "perfected" the top hat) and Lord Dupplin (who invented the dinner jacket) to chase fire engines or more often, ladies. He was known on sight to the dancers of half the cabarets of Paris, who used to greet him by shouting "Ullo, Wales!" His taste in women was so well known to society, in fact, that when he descended on a country house (usually without his wife but with a retinue of 12 to 16 attendants), a wise hostess juggled bedrooms...
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