[Cf. MLG. vleger, ‘coin worth somewhat more than a Bremer groat’ (Schiller & Lübben).] A groat, fourpence.

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1567.  Harman, Caveat, 85.

        But a flagge, a wyn and a make.
But a groate, a penny and a half penny.

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a. 1700.  B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, Flagg, a Groat.

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1851.  Mayhew, Lond. Labour (1861), I. 251. A tremendous black doll bought for a flag of a retired rag-merchant.

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