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Quotation dates: 1898
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CHALKER, n. A long, white night-shirt. Not known to our correspondents.Edb. 1898 J. Baillie Walter Crighton i.:
Maggie More, . . . [having given] them a few kindly words of welcome and initiated them into the use of the "chalker," they were tucked snugly into their beds.
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