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单词 town and tower
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town and tower
P4. Chiefly poetic and literary. Coupled with tower in allusive contexts to refer to all the inhabited places of a country or region, (hence) everywhere. Chiefly in town and tower, tower and town. Cf. in field and town at field n.1 3. Now rare.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > [noun]
stead1297
tower and townc1330
wonec1330
seat and soila1400
inhabitationc1400
populationa1544
c1330 (?a1300) Arthour & Merlin (Auch.) (1973) l. 4732 (MED) King Arthour Hadde ywarnist toun and tour.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 12983 Al þis werld, bath tur and tun.
c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Merchant's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 928 Al myn heritage, toun and tour I yeue it yow.
a1425 (?c1350) Ywain & Gawain (1964) l. 1576 (MED) Of þaire dedes was grete renown To and fra in towre and towne.
?1548 Pathose sig. A.iiv And towne and towre To lowt and lowre At my comaundement.
1621 J. Taylor Praise of Beggery sig. B2 Let Townes and Towres with batt'ry be o're-turn'd.
1771 T. Percy Hermit of Warkworth iii. 33 Sometimes a Minstrel's garb he wears, With pipes so sweet and shrill; And wends to every tower and town; O'er every dale and hill.
1813 W. Scott Bridal of Triermain ii. xvi. 78 Carlisle town and tower.
1864 Ld. Tennyson Flower in Enoch Arden, etc. 171 Thieves..Sow'd it far and wide By every town and tower.
1876 W. G. Palgrave Dutch Guiana vii. 260 Town and tower lessen and disappear behind the nearer river-margin of plantation and tree.
1945 J. Betjeman New Bats in Old Belfries 1 A reach away the breach is made By dive and shout That circles out To Henley Tower and Town.
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