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单词 colinderies
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Colinderiesn.

Etymology: < Colonies + India, with ending as in Fisheries, the name of a previous Exhibition. ‘Colind’ was the registered telegraphic address; whence, Colindia, Colindies, Colindian, also proposed names. See Daily Tel. 8 May 1886.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: Coˈlinderies.
A half-jocular name for the Colonial and Indian Exhibition held in London in 1886.
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1886 Church Times 7 May 347/2 As it is chiefly concerned with the Colonies and India, it has been proposed to call it the ‘Colinderies’.
1887 Fortn. Rev. Mar. 384 The educationally useful exhibits of the late ‘Colinderies’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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