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 Cap of Time.Cap-money. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Cap-acquaintance (A),
 
now called a bowing acquaintance. One just sufficiently known to bow to.   1
 


 Cap of Time.Cap-money. 

 
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