| 单词 |
Temple-bar |
| 释义 |
ˌTemple-ˈbar
[f. temple n.1 5 (because of its position close to the Temple buildings) + bar n.1 13.]
The name of the barrier or gateway closing the entrance into the City of London from the Strand; removed in 1878.
[1314–15Rolls of Parlt. I. 302/2 Le pavement du chemyn par entre la Barre du Novel Temple de Lundres.] 1354Ibid. II. 262/1 Qe l'Estaple de Westmr. comence sa bounde a Temple-barre. c1400Brut 238 Seynt Clementis cherche wiþout Temple-Barr. 1467–8Rolls of Parlt. V. 579/2 A Tenement withoute the Temple Barres of London. 1598Stow Surv. (1908) I. 193 The Queenes Maiestie..entered the citie by Temple Barre, through Fleetstreete, Cheape [etc.]. 1727–41[see temple n.1 5]. 1773Johnson 30 Apr. in Boswell Life (1887) II. 238 When we got to Temple-bar he [Goldsmith] stopped me, pointed to the [rebels'] heads upon it, and slily whispered me ‘Forsitan et nostrum nomen miscebitur istis’. 1851London as it is To-day i. (1855) 9 At [the] extremity [of Fleet St.], separating the cities of London and Westminster, stands Temple Bar, the only one of the city boundaries now remaining. 1864Chambers' Bk. Days II. 233/2 The heads of these two [Jacobites executed in 1746] were..stuck over Temple Bar, where they remained till 1772. |
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