Chapter Chilenos to Chloe of C by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

By the same process sky is the slang for pocket, the compound word which gave birth to it being “sky- rocket.” “Christmas” the slang for a railway guard, as “Ask the Christmas,” is, of course, from the rhyme “Christmas-card”; and “raspberry” the slang for heart, is from the rhyme “raspberry-tart.”

“Then came a knock at the Rory o'More [door],
Which made my raspberry beat.”

   Other examples given under their proper heads.

Chlo'e (Kloee). The shepherdess beloved by Daphnis in the pastoral romance of Longus, entitled Daphnis and Chloë. St. Pierre's tale of Paul and Virginia is founded on the exquisite romance of Longus.
   Prior calls Mrs. Centlivre “Cloe.”

Chloe in Pope's Moral Essays (epist. ii.), Lady Suffolk, mistress of George II. “Content to dwell in decencies for ever.”