† anti-Bartholomewn.
Obsolete.
A massacre regarded as constituting a counterpart or retaliation to the Massacre of St Bartholomew (see Bartholomew n. b), in being directed against Catholics rather than Protestants.Apparently an isolated use.
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1864 J. H. Burton Scot Abroad I. v. 274 Had the Huguenots ever possessed the opportunity for vengeance..they would have made an anti-Bartholomew of it.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022).
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n.1864- wall newspaper
- wall of circumvallation
- wall of death
- wall of partition
- wall of timber
- wall off
- wall out
- wall pass
- wall pellitory
- wall penny grass
- wall penny-grass
- wall pennygrass
- wall pennywort
- wall pepper
- wall phone
- wall picture
- wall pie
- wall plate
- wall plug
- wall rue
- wall rue spleenwort
- wall rye-grass
- wall ryegrass
- wall safe
- wall sage