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BATTLE-ROYAL. A battle or bout at cudgels or fisty-cuffs, wherein more than two persons are engaged: perhaps from its resemblance, in that particular, to more serious engagements fought to settle royal disputes.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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