Vulgar words in Notes and Queries, Number 191, June 25, 1853 - A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. (Page 1)
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), "Shortly after the Conquest it seemed a disgrace for a gentleman to have but one single name, as the meaner sort and bastards had," so now, the _tria nomina nobiliorum_ have become so common, as to render the epigram upon a certain M. L-P. Saint-Florentin, of almost universal applicability as a neat and befitting epitaph.