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語源

• Perhaps from the idea that such a firm (company) would claim to have been established for a long time.
• Perhaps from 古期英語 gelang (“fraudulent”) and Italian firma (“signature”).

(Can this etymology be sourced?)

名詞

long firm (plural long firms)

1. A company of swindlers who obtain goods on pretence of being established in business, and then decamp without payment to do the same elsewhere.

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