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单词 east-central
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east-central
east-central adj. (a) situated centrally and to the east; (b) (with capital initials) designating the eastern half of the central postal division of London; cf. EC n. at E n.1 Initialisms.
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1819 A. Hawkins Kingsbridge & Salcombe 142 The venerable stone cross, over the East central window of the chancel.
1857 Chambers's Jrnl. 20 June 399/2 The committee recommended—that the metropolis should be divided into ten postal districts... A map..was printed in lithograph, and coloured, shewing the ten districts—named respectively Northern, Northeastern, North-western, Eastern, East Central, Western, West Central, Southern, South-eastern, and Southwestern.
1909 Chambers's Jrnl. Mar. 154/1 It is customary in the West to classify the various contingents which come from east-central Europe as Galicians.
1911 Post Office Guide 1 July 608 Other Post Offices in the East Central District.
2000 E. Hunt et al. South Pacific 690/2 Oral histories of the Kwaio people..from Malaita's east-central mountains, claim ancestors that go back 150 generations.
2003 A. Bromfield tr. B. Akunin Winter Queen (2004) xii. 166 The next act is played out a few hours later, in the office of the East Central postal district of the City of London.
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