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noun
Rack-rent  n.  A rent of the full annual value of the tenement, or near it; an excessive or unreasonably high rent.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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... and originality, that he was very glad her ladyship was better. Why, at the tone of his voice, did she start, and again gaze at him with frightened eyes? There sate the Chief Inquisitor, smiling, perfectly calm, eating ham and muffins. O poor writhing, rack-rent victim! O stony Inquisitor! O Baroness ...
— The Virginians • William Makepeace Thackeray



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