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Proper noun
Paddy's Goose
- (UK, slang, obsolete) The White Swan, a celebrated public house in Ratcliff Highway, east London, England.
1870, Daniel Joseph Kirwan, Palace and Hovel, Or, Phases of London Life, page 633:"Paddy's Goose," or the "White Swan," as it is called by its owner, is perhaps the most frightful hell-hole in London. The very sublimity of vice and degradation is here attained,
1890, Francis Edward Smiley, The Evangelization of a Great City, page 209:To-day the White Swan, better known as Paddy's Goose, once one of the vilest dance-houses in Ratcliff Highway, is to be opened as a Mission Hall by the Wesleyan Methodist Home Mission,
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