'vert

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'vert (plural 'verts)

  1. (archaic, colloquial) A religious convert.
    • 1865, Edmund Salusbury Ffoulkes, Experiences of a 'Vert:
      But, in point of talent, it is the only publication that I know of professing to emanate from Roman Catholics in this country that can be named in the same breath with the leading Protestant reviews or journals. I own frankly, I cannot say this of the Dublin, notwithstanding that its editor is a 'vert, and that some big 'verts write in it.

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