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dog's nose en · NOUN
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(archaic, uncountable) A drink made with stout and gin, spiced and sweetened.
[…] comfortable fireside tin utensils […] made in that shape that they might, with their pointed ends, seek out for themselves glowing nooks in the depths of the red coals, when they mulled your ale, or heated for you those delectable drinks, Purl, Flip, and Dog’s Nose.
1864 May – 1865 November, Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1865, →OCLC: