FINISH. The finish; a small coffee-house in Coven Garden, market, opposite Russel-street, open very early in the morning, and therefore resorted to by debauchees shut out of every other house: it is also called Carpenter's coffee-house.A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)--#books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons
