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ˈplaystow local.
Forms: 1 pleᵹstów, 3 pleystow; now (as place-name) Plaistow, Plestor.
[OE. pleᵹstów a place of play, a gymnasium, f. pleᵹ, play n. + stów place.]
A place of play, a playground; now surviving in names of English villages (Plaistow in Sussex and Essex), and in Plestor, name of an open space of about one third of an acre near the church at Selborne, Hants.
10..Sax. Leechd. III. 206 [Þonne man] On pleᵹstowe oððe on wafung stowe andbidian hine ᵹesihð styrunge sume ᵹetacnað. c1050Cott. Cleopatra Glosses in Wr.-Wülcker 411/45 Gymnasio on pleᵹestowum. Ibid. 465/40 Palestrarum, ᵹestrynga, pleᵹstowa. 1789White Antiq. Selborne x, Sir Adam Gurdon..in conjunction with his wife Constantia, in the year 1271, granted to the prior and convent of Selborne all his right and claim to a certain place, placea, called La Pleystow, in the village aforesaid, ‘in liberam, puram, et perpetuam elemosinam’. This Pleystow, locus ludorum, or play-place, is a level area near the church of about forty-four yards by thirty-six, and is known now by the name of the Plestor. 1875Mort. Collins Thoughts in Gard. (1880) II. 109 There is also to be a cross to his [Gilbert White's] memory... Is there no sculptor who could adorn that cross which is to be erected on the plaistor with a flying swallow in marble of Sicily? |