Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—F

Foss

(Corporal). An attendant on Lieutenant Worthington. A similar character to Trim in Sterne's Tristram Shandy. (G. Colman: The Poor Gentleman.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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