The signal among tailors and seamstresses for snuffing the candle. The last of them to cry "top" had to snuff the candle.
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Example
My hairs, you perceive, are grown grey in following our sublime trade: full many a time have I cried top in the winter, the first of all the gentlemen on the board; and many a time has it fallen to my lot to apply the snuffers, and take off the filthy excrescence from the candle myself, but never before, in the experience of fifty long years, was it thought that English tailors were inferior to foreign ones.
Order number
11
Part of speech
interjection
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