单词 | penniless bench |
释义 | > as lemmaspenniless bench penniless bench n. now historical a covered bench which formerly stood beside St Martin's Church, Carfax, Oxford; (also) any of various similar open-air seats elsewhere. Hence allusively: †the resort of wayfarers or destitute people; a state or condition of penury (obsolete). ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > bench > [noun] > specific benches penniless bench1560 log1609 1560 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 284 Item, to..Sylvester Kechyn, for mending the peneles benche..ij s. iiij d. 1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) f. 11 Euery stoole he sate on, was penniles bench. 1596 Bp. W. Barlow tr. L. Lavater Three Christian Serm. i. 120 By which..they bring both their parentes and themselues vnto Peniless bench. c1600 L. Hutton Antiq. Oxf. in C. Plummer Elizabethan Oxf. (1887) 86 On the left hand, under the East end of St. Martins Church, yee see that Seate, which is called Pennelesse Bench, builded by the Cittie, as well for their solace and prospect every waie, as for the conveniencie of the Market Women in the tyme of Raine. a1640 P. Massinger City-Madam (1658) iv. sig. H1v He shall not Sit long on pennilesse-bench. 1860 J. W. Warter Sea-board & Down II. 43 Though he have sometimes to sit on the Penniless Bench. 1931 Rev. Eng. Stud. 7 436 Further evidence of Middleton's local knowledge an allusion to ‘the Mayor's bench at Oxford,’ Penniless Bench. 1993 J. Morris Oxford ii. ix. 98 There used to be a place called Penniless Bench, where the indigent assembled for comfort or charity in the shadow of Carfax Tower. < as lemmas |
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