Refrigerator = jail?

[James Smith]

So ice-boxes were commonly called refrigerators in the
19th century?


--- Jonathon Green <slang at ABECEDARY.NET> wrote:
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> >Cf. syn. "cooler."
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> >JL
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> And 'ice-box'.
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> JG
>

James D. SMITH                 |If history teaches anything
South SLC, UT                  |it is that we will be sued
jsmithjamessmith at yahoo.com     |whether we act quickly and decisively
                               |or slowly and cautiously.



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