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Fag-end

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Noun
  1. 1
    The last remnant. India

    "And though the annals of the period do not shew us that there was less ale drawn, or less canary called for; men got dry with the heat of polemical discussion, and drunk with a text, not the fag end of a ballad, in their mouths; and people made a sort of morality of straight hair, long faces, and sad-coloured garments."

  2. 2
    The frayed end of a length of cloth or rope.
  3. 3
    The unsmoked end of a cigarette or cigar.

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