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单词 to hold a chapel
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to hold a chapel
b. A meeting or association of the journeymen in a printing-office for promoting and enforcing order among themselves, settling disputes as to price of work, etc. It is presided over by a father of the chapel annually elected. Hence to hold a chapel.
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society > occupation and work > working > association of employers or employees > [noun] > trade union > unions of printers > meeting of
chapel1683
society > occupation and work > worker > those involved in labour relations > [noun] > member of trade union > president of printers' union
father of the chapel1879
F.O.C.1929
1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 356 The Oldest Freeman is Father of the Chappel.
1740 Country Jrnl. 24 May in E. Howe London Compositor (1947) 28 The senior Freeman..is the Father or dean of the Chapel.
1842 Cleave’s Penny Gaz. 29 Jan. In the Office he represents ‘the Foreman’, ‘the Chapel’, and ‘the Father of the Chapel’, in his own proper person.
1879 Women's Suffrage Jrnl. 1 Nov. 183/2 A circular..to all ‘fathers of chapels’, i.e. trades officials in printing shops.
1888 in C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab.
1934 J. K. Commons Myself 18 The ‘father of the chapel’ held an auction every three months.
2002 Journalist Aug. 13/1 Eoin Ronayne was Father of the NUJ Chapel.
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