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 Domisel’lus.Don. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Don
 
is do-on, as “Don your bonnet.” (See DOFF, DUP.)
       
“Then up he rose, and donned his clothes,
And dupp’d the chamber door.”
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Shakespeare: Hamlet, iv. 5.
 


 Domisel’lus.Don. 

 
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