Rag-shop

Quick meaning: Rag-shop is a noun meaning Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rag, shop.

Meaning

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rag, shop.

More Meanings

1. (obsolete, slang) A bank (financial institution).

Example Sentences

Downing-street must bow down before Threadneedle, and St Stephen's must crave licence of the Bank. We must not be surprised if the potent Senate of the Rag-shop should vote the Constitution void, and dismiss King, Lords, and Commons, as an expensive pageant, since they have taken our lives, properties, religion, welfare and morals, into their keeping […]

Word Forms

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