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the good town of ——
d. In extended use of a ship, town, river, etc. (chiefly with reference to things personified or conventionally treated as feminine: cf. she pron.1 2a). Now only as a conventional epithet in set expressions, as the good ship —— (now frequently in humorous extended use), the good town of —— (somewhat archaic).
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OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Parker) anno 1001 Foran ða þanon west oþ þæt hy coman to Defenan..& forbærndon Tegntun & eac fela oðra godra hama þe we genemnan ne cunnan.
lOE St. Nicholas (Corpus Cambr.) (1997) 86 Þa wearð se erchebisceop dæd of þam godan burge þe is gehaten Mirrea.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 24862 Euer-mare þai lokid doun. quen þat gode ship [Vesp. þe scip] sulde droun.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cccliii. f. ccxxixv/2 Therby they shulde haue the good ryuer of Lescault, and the flete therof at their pleasure.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 304 That the Prelates and Nobles of Fraunce, and the good townes should assemble themselues.
1589 E. Hogan in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations i. 156 Being imbarked in the good shippe, called the Gallion of London.
1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes III. ii. ii. 255 Nor would the Monson suffer him to go to Liampoo, but to go to the good riuer Tanauquir.
1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 27 Good men of warre, though ships for traffique.
1682 N. O. tr. N. Boileau-Despréaux Lutrin ii. 14 Thus did the Gypsey flutter up and down Through City, Country, Village, and good Town.
1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 144. ⁋8 There are at this Time in the good Town of Edinburgh, Beaus, Fops, and Coxcombs.
1735 Lives Most Remarkable Criminals II. 245 Capt. Creagh was indicted for Feloniously sinking the good Ship called the Friendship.
1810 Ld. Byron Nurse's Dole in Occas. Pieces 3 The good ship Argo..still unlaunch'd from Grecian docks.
1864 Bill of Lading in Law Rep.: Eng. & Irish Appeal Cases (1874) 6 288 Shipped in good order, etc...in and upon the good ship called the Java.
1868 Locomotive Engineers' Monthly Jrnl. Sept. 260/1 The prolonged whistle of the good locomotive, ‘Antelope’, which has drawn us to the summit of Sierra.
1871 Harper's Mag. Feb. 353/2 One of the numerous trade corporations established in the good city of Paris.
1901 Badminton Mag. Feb. 130 All these ‘natural commodities’ are united..by the good river Thames itself.
1934 S. Clare On Good Ship Lollipop (sheet music) 3 On the good ship Lollipop It's a sweet trip to a candy shop Where bon-bon's play on the sunny beach of peppermint bay.
1987 A. P. Taylor tr. A. H. Ba Fortunes of Wangrin (1999) iv. 38 His life in the good town of Diagaramba was bound to be extremely happy.
1998 Newsweek 11 May 87/2 That salty bit of e-mail comes from the good ship Chessie Racing, skirting Cape Horn some weeks ago in the Whitbread Round the World Race.
2003 Ireland on Sunday 20 July 80/3 The same fans were singing his praises as the good ship Sunderland sank from the Premiership without a trace.
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