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Word: soke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Should Lord Burghley's father, the 5th Marquess of Exeter, die, the young Justice of the Peace would take his seat in the House of Lords, inherit estates of 27,000 acres, and become both Hereditary Grand Almoner to His Majesty & Custos Rotulorum of the Soke of Peterborough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Top Dog | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

SOCKING, the Eton College term for a treat, synonymous with CHUCK at Westminster and other schools. Believed to be derived from the monkish word SOKE. An old writer speaks of a pious man "who did not SOKE for three days", meaning he fasted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 3/30/1923 | See Source »

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