Crossword-Solution: MASHERS 7 letters, 13 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

But we can learn clearly enough, from the fashion-plates of the day, what the Mashers were in outward semblance; from the lampoons, their mode of life.

The aristocracy had already in the main adopted the “jumping-Jesus” principle; though here and there one like Crum—who was an “honourable”—stood starkly languid for that gambler’s Nirvana which had been the _summum bonum_ of the old “dandies” and of “the mashers” in the eighties.

People (among whom perhaps I ought to class myself) who had remained unshaved and disreputable during the voyage, in old clothes, etc., now come out of their cabins looking Bond Street mashers (bar me); they were all those who had come out for amusement and whose journies mostly finished with the voyage; the others who preserved a travel-stained appearance were all going further on, some long distances, and some short.

From a cupboard she took out mince-meat choppers, potato mashers, cream whippers, egg-beaters, and other utensils, gazing at them in total ignorance of their functions.

While I was waiting for my coach to take a party of _tarts_ and _mashers_ to the Derby, I would read a chapter of Kant, and I often took the book away with me in my pocket.