looker-on

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looker-on (plural lookers-on)

  1. A spectator, onlooker.
    • 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter IV, in Mansfield Park: , volume I, London: for T Egerton, , →OCLC, page 78:
      After dancing with each other at a proper number of balls, the young people justified these opinions, and an engagement, with a due reference to the absent Sir Thomas, was entered into, much to the satisfaction of their respective families, and of the general lookers-on of the neighbourhood, who had, for many weeks past, felt the expediency of Mr. Rushworth’s marrying Miss Bertram.

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