| 单词 | queen's head |
| 释义 | > as lemmasqueen's head ΘΚΠ society > communication > correspondence > postal services > payment for postage > [noun] > postage stamp postage stamp1829 stamp1837 label1839 head1840 queen's head1840 postage label1852 adhesive1854 sticker1863 1840 Chambers's Edinb. Jrnl. 11 July 193/2 The perplexed purchaser immediately devotes a queen's head, as he most irreverently calls it, to the purpose of asking the editors what he is to do. 1844 A. Smith Adventures Mr. Ledbury I. xv. 194 Notes it would not do to stick a penny Queen's Head upon. 1860 C. M. Yonge Stokesley Secret (1861) 16 I must have a queen's-head to write to Mamma. 1879 A. Trollope John Caldigate III. x. 132 That stamp, that effigy, that two-penny queen's-head. 1915 Chambers's Jrnl. Sept. 599/1 When the new stamp was introduced it was invariably called the ‘queen's head’. 1985 Times 24 July 42/5 Commemorative and special stamps are not issued for fun. The production costs are considerable and the public only buys them for use as it would the everyday Queen's head stamps.] < as lemmas |
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