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nounstalko (plural stalkos or stalkoes)
plural stalkos · plural stalkoes
- obsoleteA poor person who pretends to be of grand ancestry.
Soft Simon had reduced himself to the lowest class of Stalkos, or walking gentlemen, as they are termed; men who have nothing to do, and no fortune to support them, but who style themselves esquire; and who […] are jealous of that title, and of their claims to family antiquity.
1805, Maria Edgeworth, Popular Tales, volume 2, page 148
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