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Webster’s 3rd new int’l dict. of the English language (mandatory)
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There are definitions for “lottery” and for “figure,” but there is nothing for “lottery figure.: Nor is there anything under “lottery” that suggests this type of definition.
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Term as found in source/hierarchical displays/definitions, other sources, &c.
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“Old Comic Elton and the Age of Fun: Robert H. Elton and the Picture Book”, by Micheal Joseph in Children's Lit. Assn. Quarterly, 2003 (vol. 28, no, 3), p. 160: “Another homage to Cruikshank may be seen in Elton's Funny Alphabet, whose so-called lottery figures—letters made from fancifully manipulated human forms—resemble the titling letters of Cruikshank's Comic Almanac …”
A Book of Drolleries / edited by Aunt Louisa London : Frederick Warne and Co. ; New York : Scribner, Welford, and Armstrong, [ca. 1875]; with illustrations printed in colours and musical accompaniment. (Each leaf has a song verse, illustrated by colored wood-engravings with music printed below; illustrations in the first two works include lottery figures, spelling out a number or word)
Cruikshank, Robert, R. Cruikshank’s Comic Alphabet: scope note: Figures in the shape of letters and numbers, made from fancifully manipulated human figures, used in children's books, particularly ABC books, counting books, and similar juvenile instructional works
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