单词 | city cross |
释义 | > as lemmasCity Cross City Cross n. British a cross, or building bearing a cross, erected at a marketplace in a city; cf. market cross n., butter cross n. at butter n.1 Compounds 3. ΚΠ 1746 London Mag. June 314/1 Fourteen Colours taken from the Rebels at the Battle of Culloden, were..publickly burnt at the City Cross by the Hands of the common Hangman. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 480 The newly elected members went in state to the City Cross. 2010 D. Porter & D. Prince Frommer's Eng. 2011 xvii. 616 The town crier appears at noon..at the City Cross. < as lemmas |
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