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单词 cheltenham
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Cheltenhamn.

/ˈtʃɛlt(ə)nəm/
Etymology: Name of a town in Gloucestershire.
1. Used attributively to designate the chalybeate waters of the springs there, or the salts left by the evaporation of these waters (see also quot. 1842).
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the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [adjective] > specific spa
Cheltenham1783
1783 S. Moreau Tour to Cheltenham Spa 42 Old men drink Cheltenham water by the quart.
1783 S. Moreau Tour to Cheltenham Spa 47 They..take a gentle dose of Cheltenham salts, or some other opening medicine, as their physician thinks best suited.
1819 P. B. Shelley Let. 23–24 Jan. (1964) II. 76 I..have been using mercury & Cheltenham salts with much caution and some success.
1837 Penny Cycl. VII. 31/1 The persons most benefited by the Cheltenham waters are those who, after a long residence in hot climates, are affected with diseased liver.
1842 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (ed. 3) Cheltenham Salts, these are sometimes made from the waters; at others, factitiously. The following is a formula [etc.].
1848 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (ed. 7) Cheltenham Water, Artificial, may be made of Epsom salt, gr. xij, iron filings, gr. j : [etc.].
1855 A. B. Garrod Essentials Materia Medica 80 The so-called Cheltenham salts consist chiefly of sulphate of soda.
2. Any of several varieties of type-fount (see quots.). Originally U.S.
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society > communication > printing > types, blocks, or plates > relating to type > style of type > [noun] > type face or font > others
script1779
Baskerville1802
Egyptian type (letters, figures)1855
hand lettering1864
Garamond1868
runic1869
outline1878
Bodoni type1880
hairline letter1888
bold-face1889
Cheltenham1910
in-line1923
slab serif1924
Bembo1930
Times New Roman1932
Times1957
manifolderc1961
Times Roman1963
1910 E. G. Gress Art & Pract. Typogr. ii. 150/1 Automatic harmony is possible with that remarkable type creation, the ‘Cheltenham Family’, developed by the American Type Founders Company. Cheltenham Oldstyle, from which the dozen other Cheltenhams are descended, was born in the brains of Bertram G. Goodhue..and Ingalls Kimball, of the Cheltenham Press, New York.
1917 F. S. Henry Printing for School & Shop iii. 79 Cheltenham Oldstyle... A Capital R of Thirty-six-point Cheltenham. This paragraph has been set in Cheltenham to show the long ascenders so characteristic of the family group.
1968 ‘E. McBain’ Fuzz ix. 145 The city's other afternoon paper..was next to feature the notes on its front page..in 24-point Cheltenham Bold.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2019).
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