Definition of Rumfard
RUMFORD. To ride to Rumford to have one's backside new
bottomed: i.e. to have a pair of new leather breeches.
Rumford was formerly a famous place for leather breeches.
A like saying is current in Norfolk and Suffolk, of Bungay,
and for the same reason.--Rumford lion; a calf.
See ESSEX LION.
- The Devil's Dictionary (Ambrose Bierce)
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