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English
Etymology
From kerb + stone.
Noun
kerbstone (plural kerbstones)
- A paving stone that forms part of a kerb.
1912 (date written), Bernard Shaw, “Pygmalion”, in Androcles and the Lion, Overruled, Pygmalion, London: Constable and Company, published 1916, →OCLC, Act I, page 115:You see this creature with her kerbstone English: the English that will keep her in the gutter to the end of her days. Well, sir, in three months I could pass that girl off as a duchess at an ambassador’s garden party.
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