horsekeeper's

Updated: May 20, 2025

Sporting Snobs of course there were, and are always those happy beings in whom Nature has implanted a love of slang: who loitered about the horsekeeper's stables, and drove the London coaches a stage in and out and might be seen swaggering through the courts in pink of early mornings, and indulged in dice and blind-hookey at nights, and never missed a race or a boxing-match; and rode flat-races, and kept bull-terriers.

William Makepeace Thackeray - The Book of Snobs