| 单词 | curse of scotland |
| 释义 | > as lemmascurse of Scotland curse of Scotland n. a name given to the nine of diamonds in a pack of cards.Origin of the name doubtful. A not unlikely suggestion is that the card was so called from resembling the armorial bearings of Dalrymple, Lord Stair, nine lozenges on a saltire, the number and shape of the spots being identical, and their arrangement sufficiently similar. The first Earl of Stair was the object of much execration, especially from the adherents of the Stuarts, for his share in sanctioning the Massacre of Glencoe in 1692, and subsequently for the influential part played by him in bringing about the Union with England in 1707. An opponent says he was ‘at the bottom of the Union’, and ‘so he may be styled the Judas of the Country’.extracted from cursen.< as lemmas |
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