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    Pearly Kings and Queens, known as pearlies, are an organised charitable tradition of working-class culture in London, England. The practice of wearing...
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  • Man, a story that has appeared in the comics anthology 2000 AD Pearly Kings and Queens American English slang for a hired killer Button Men, a dice game...
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    London and founder of the working class tradition of Pearly Kings and Queens. Croft was born at the St Pancras Workhouse in Somers Town, London, and baptised...
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  • group The Flirtations Pearlies, slang for members of the Pearly Kings and Queens charitable tradition "Pearly", a Space: Above and Beyond episode Pearlie...
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    East End institution, there are Pearly Kings and Queens across inner London. A parade of real-life Pearly Kings and Queens was featured at the 2012 Summer...
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    shimmering outfits and began wearing more and more heavily decorated outfits and soon became known as the Pearly Kings and Queens. Betty May spoke of...
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    Sequins continued to be popular into the 1970s and early 1980s. Glitter Oes Pearly Kings and Queens Dukes, Tanya (4 December 2020). "An Abbreviated History...
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  • working-class London speech, each spreading independently". The Pearly Kings and Queens are famous as an East End institution, but that perception is not...
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    purposes. The Pearly Kings and Queens are an elaborate example of this. It is sometimes used in the decorative grips of firearms, and in other gun furniture...
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  • of season 4 in animated series. Tessie O'Shea, Kay Kendall and the Pearly Kings and Queens, sang an excerpt of the song in the film London Town. In the...
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