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rogues' gallery

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rogues' gallery (rgz)
n.
A collection of pictures of known and suspected criminals maintained in police files and used for making identifications.

rogues' gallery
n
1. (Law) a collection of photographs of known criminals kept by the police for identification purposes
2. a group of undesirable people


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Then I got to go to a picture garage an' get my mug taken for the Niles Electric rogues' gallery.
Reader, if you had come to spend the night in the lonely castle of a perfect stranger with a shifty eye and a rogues' gallery smile, and on retiring to your room had found the door kick-proof and the window barred, and if, immediately after your discovery of these phenomena, a white-faced young lady had plunged in upon you and urged you to immediate flight, wouldn't that jar you?
Probably his finger-prints are in the Rogues' Gallery, and he is better known to the police as Jack the Blood, or something, but he hasn't shown that side of him yet.
 
 
 
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