kinchin lay

noun

The robbing of children.

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Meanings

noun
  1. UKobsoletethieves' cantThe robbing of children.

    This is still a popular form of the "Kinchin lay", and as the turbands are often of fine stuff, the petite industrie pays well.

    1885, Richard F. Burton, chapter XXV, in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume I, The Burton Club, page 259 footnote
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