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silvine160 | 00:46 Tue 20th Feb 2007 | Word Origins
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origin of rag and bone man
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Because that's what he used to collect. It was a sort of primitive recycling. The rags might be altered into cotton waste, for example and the bones would go for glue-manufacture and so on.
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