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rogues' gallery

  1. a collection of portraits of criminals and suspects maintained by the police for purposes of identification.


rogues' gallery

  1. a collection of photographs of known criminals kept by the police for identification purposes
  2. a group of undesirable people
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Word History and Origins

Origin of rogues' gallery1

First recorded in 1855–60
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Idioms and Phrases

A police collection of pictures of criminals and suspects kept for identification purposes. For example, The detective went through the entire rogues' gallery but couldn't find a match with the suspect . [Mid-1800s]

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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