a purple dromedary

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'O all the myriad kinds of thief [in 19th century London] . . . the most dextrous were the files and buzz-gloaks, or pickpockets. . . . A pupil with no talent for this was scorned as a purple dromedary.'

'Robert Hughes, The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding, 1987.

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