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)
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