Word: quartern
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...arms on the gentry's silver plate), wandering about town like so many young men, knowing himself to be a genius, but not knowing what to be a genius about. A tavern brawl gave him his cue. A Sunday drinker clobbered another over the scalp with a quartern tankard. In 18th century terms it was a "laughable subject," what with the man all bloody and grimacing with pain. Hogarth made a sketch that delighted his fellow apprentices, and thus he found his life work. He could do this stuff on copper, and copperplate prints of current events were...
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