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c1530 So well ys me be-gone in F. J. Furnivall R. Laneham's Let. (1871) Pref. 130 His hoysse of london black.

1633 P. Massinger New Way to pay Old Debts iv. i. sig. I2 One part skarlet And the other London-blew.

1959 Times 21 Sept. 13/2 London-bottled, it costs about 10s.

1972 Guardian 24 Feb. 11/2 The difference between London-bottled and château or domaine-bottled wine of the same vineyard..cannot be stated in hard terms.

1972 House & Garden Feb. 111/1 With London-bottled clarets starting at £1.50 and château-bottled at £2.50, the prices were not excessive.

1827 R. Thomson Chron. London Bridge 152 ‘Here follows the ancient Music to the Song and Dance of London Bridge is broken down.’…‘A choice piece of simple melody, indeed,’ said Mr. Postern,..‘but you called it also a dance, Mr. Barbican; pray was it ever adapted to the feet, as well as to the tongue?’]

1894 A. B. Gomme Trad. Games I. 199 It is singular that the verses of this game [sc. ‘Hark the robbers’], also enter into the composition of ‘London Bridge is broken down’. It is probable, therefore, that it may be an altered form of the game of ‘London Bridge’.

1909 Encycl. Relig. & Ethics II. 852/1 The singing game known as ‘London Bridge’ has many variants in the different localities where it is played, but fundamentally the theme is the same.

1939 F. Thompson Lark Rise ix. 159 Well-known games still met with at children's parties, such as ‘Oranges and Lemons’, ‘London Bridge’.

1969 I. Opie & P. Opie Children's Games viii. 235 A singing game such as ‘London Bridge is Falling Down’.

1969 R. De Sola & D. De Sola Dict. Cooking 143/1 London broil, large flank steak broiled, then cut in thin slices diagonally across the grain for serving.

1973 E.-J. Bahr Nice Neighbourhood ii. 24 We cooked a London broil out on the grill and ate on the patio.

1974 Columbia (S. Carolina) Record 24 Apr. 14-B/1 Most steak buffs have their favorite cut, and this brings up something I haven't been able to figure out: the names they give steaks. I'm told that Britons had never heard of London broil until some Yank informed them what it was.

a1475 Bk. Curtasye (Sloane 1986) l. 626 in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 320 Of a lunden buschelle he shalle bake xx louys.

?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. vii^v An acre of ground..may be metely well sowen with two London busshells of pees.

1552 T. Cooper Bibliotheca Eliotæ (rev. ed.) Baccharis apud Ruellium, is supposed to be the flower called London button.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Gantelée, the hearbe called Fox-gloues..and London buttons.

1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 152 From the London clay we have procured three or four hundred species of testacea.

1830 M. Edgeworth Let. 8 Dec. (1971) 445 It is so very dark in a thick London fog that I can scarcely see what I write.

1887 J. Ashby-Sterry Lazy Minstrel (1892) 141 'Tis sometimes yellow, sometimes brown, A London Fog!

1906 W. Marriott Hints to Meteorol. Observers (ed. 6) 67/1 London fog, the dry, gloomy, irritating fog peculiar to London and other large towns, aggravated by smoke.

1931 E. E. Cummings Let. 7 Jan. (1969) 120 A London fog struck the ville at the very moment of departure.

1972 E. Routley Puritan Pleasures of Detective Story iii. 36 Holmes..has moral status, and that makes one feel safer when one sets out with him into another London fog.

1920 G. Saintsbury Notes on Cellar-bk. vii. 104 Gin, whether ‘squareface’ or London or Plymouth, [costs] not much more than half a crown.

1954 M. Sharp Gipsy in Parlour xxiv. 230 ‘Devon cider be a powerful brew,’ said my Aunt Charlotte... ‘London gin's a sight worse,’ retorted Clara.

1963 A. L. Simon Guide Good Food & Wines 721/1 London Gins, which differ according to the Distilleries responsible for them.

1970 House & Garden Nov. 126/2 The type of gin in most general use is London Dry... Though a few countries..deem ‘London’ to indicate a geographical origin,..the term London Dry Gin is mainly accepted as indicating a type of gin.

1853 C. Dickens Bleak House x. 90 Smoke, which is the London ivy, had so wreathed itself round Peffer's name,..that the affectionate parasite quite overpowered the parent tree.

1889 Sporting Life (Philadelphia) 4 Jan. (Farmer) A very severe cold caught by nine hours' contact with London ivy.

1780 A. Young Tour Ireland (1892) I. 306 Of other sorts of potatoes, he finds the London lady and the apple to be the best sorts.

1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 24 Whatever Christianity or Civility will allow, I can afford with London measure.

a1652 R. Brome Weeding of Covent-Garden Pref. Poem in Five New Playes (1659) 'Tis not in Book, as Cloth; we never say Make London-measure, when we buy a Play.

1807 Salmagundi 4 Feb. 22 I uncorked a bottle of London particular.

1816 W. Scott Antiquary II. ii. 54 I..will shew you an excellent venison pasty, and a bottle of London particular Madeira.

1853 C. Dickens Bleak House iii. 20 ‘This is a London particular.’ I had never heard of such a thing. ‘A fog, miss,’ said the young gentleman.

1853 C. Dickens Bleak House iii. 20 This is a London particular... A fog, miss.

1901 Scotsman 6 Nov. 10/6 ‘The London particular’, the fog which, four or five years ago, assumed the consistency of peasoup.

1991 J. Higgins Eagle has Flown (BNC) 84 The fog was yellow and acrid and bit at the back of the throat like acid. ‘Shocking, isn't it?’ Munro said. ‘Real pea-souper. What was it Dickens called it? A London particular.

1860 T. Rivers in Gardeners' Chron. 21 Jan. 47/1 (heading) The London Plane trees.

1885 G. S. Boulger Fam. Trees 1st Ser. 23 Most of our London Plane-trees belong to an intermediate form.

1930 A. D. Webster London Trees 92 The Maple-leaved or London Plane stands first in the list of select trees for planting in towns.

1970 Nature 21 Mar. 1159/2 The London plane has proved extremely valuable as a tree that will endure the difficult environments of modern cities.

1889 Science 24 May 394/2 The supply of powder can be regulated to such a nicety, that Mr. Leggett claims he can make half a pound of London purple cover an acre.

1894 Times 16 Aug. 6/2 Paris green or London purple.

1566 A. Edwards Let. 26 Apr. in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1589) ii. 379 Your London reds are not to be sent hither.

1837 W. Macgillivray Withering's Brit. Plants (ed. 4) 269 S[isymbrium] Irio, London Rocket.

1566 A. Edwards Let. 8 Aug. in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1589) ii. 380 I wore a garment of London russet, being much esteemed.

1501 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1900) II. 30 v quarteris Londone scarlat to lyne the samyn [doublat].

1957 Textile Terms & Definitions (Textile Inst.) (ed. 3) 61 London shrinking, a finishing process.

1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 509/2 London-shrunk (Textiles), a term used in the woollen and worsted trades to indicate that a fabric has been specially treated in order to prevent shrinkage during make-up and when worn.

1950 ‘Mercury’ Dict. Textile Terms 323/2 London shrunk. The dry cloth to be shrunk is folded between an upper and lower layer of wet cloth. The cloth is then dried naturally, and afterwards pressed.

1968 J. Ironside Fashion Alphabet 239 London-shrunk, a process for shrinking wool fabric before tailoring.

1883 Daily News 16 Oct. 3/1 Blue black, dark grey, and the new ‘London smoke’ are chosen.

1860 R. Hogg Fruit Man. 199 London Sugar.—Fruit below medium size, turbinate. Ripe in the end of July and beginning of August.

1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 480 Sweete Williams, Tolmeiners, and London Tuftes.

1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole (1656) 320 We do..call the..narrower leafed kindes, Sweet Johns, and all the rest Sweet Williams; yet in some places they call the broader leafed kindes that are not spotted..London tufts.