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penny trumpet
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Definition:a toy trumpet that only costs one cent, a common child's toy of the 19th century
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they had to bribe him with a penny trumpet to take his castor oil, and how fond he used to be of senna tea, Flushington felt that he must seem more of a fool than ever!
F. Anstey. The Black Poodle and Other Tales (1896)
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But, what the hell! the horse was a penny trumpet to that roarer of yours.”
George Eliot. Middlemarch
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