| 单词 | old keystone |
| 释义 | > as lemmasold Keystone d. U.S. More fully old Keystone. (A nickname for) the state of Pennsylvania; = Keystone State n. at Compounds 1. Now rare.With quot. 1803 cf. sense A. 1b. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > America > North America > [noun] > United States > specific states > Pennsylvania Keystone State1831 Pa.1831 keystone1839 Quaker State1844 the world > the earth > named regions of earth > America > North America > [adjective] > U.S.A. > specific states or regions > Pennsylvania Pennsylvanian1698 keystone1948 1803 Addr. by Democratic Comm. in H. M. Jenkins Pennsylvania (1903) II. xii. 316 Pennsylvania is the Keystone of the democratic arch.] 1839 Liberator 5 Apr. 54/1 Gallant Senator Buchanan, of the old Keystone. 1844 Congress. Globe 4 June 662/3 The old Key-stone has never furnished the Union with either President or Vice President. 1873 W. Carleton Farm Ballads 154 Mid old Key-stone's rugged riches, which the miner's hand await. 1920 A. H. Wharton In Old Pennsylvania Towns i. 14 No state is richer in historic associations than the old Keystone. 1948 Time 21 June 22/3 The control of keystone Pennsylvania was one of the big question marks of the convention. 1972 A. M. Shankman (Ph.D. thesis, Emory Univ.) (title) Conflict in the Old Keystone; anti-war sentiment in Pennsylvania, 1860-65. < as lemmas |
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