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 Pitt’s Mark.Pit’tacus (Greek, Pittakos). 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Pitt’s Pictures or Billy Pitt’s Pictures.
 
Blind windows; so called because many windows were blocked up when William Pitt augmented the Window Tax in 1784, and again in 1797.   1
 


 Pitt’s Mark.Pit’tacus (Greek, Pittakos). 

 
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