单词 | tyburnia |
释义 | Tyburnian. A former literary name for the residential district built in the nineteenth century and extending along the Bayswater Road from Marble Arch to Lancaster Gate and northwards. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > named cities or towns > [noun] > in Britain > London > parts of vintrya1456 steelyard1474 tower hillc1480 city1556 Bow-bell1600 row1607 gate1723 east end1742 Mayfair1754 garden1763 warren1769 west?1789 the Borough1797 west end1807 Holy Land1821 Belgravia1848 Tyburnia1848 Mesopotamia1850 South Kensington1862 Dockland1904 South Ken1933 Fitzrovia1958 square mile1966 1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair li. 449 Ask the Reverend Mr. Thurifer if Belgravia is not a sounding brass, and Tyburnia a tinkling cymbal. 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 395/2 The patrician squares of what has been called Belgravia and Tyburnia. 1865 Slang Dict. Tyburnia, the Portman and Grosvenor Square districts. It is facetiously divided by the Londoners into ‘Tyburnia Felix’, ‘Tyburnia Deserta’, and ‘Tyburnia Snobbica’. 1878 A. J. C. Hare Walks in London II. 104 Tyburn still gives a name to the white streets and squares of Tyburnia, which are wholly devoid of interest or beauty. 1902 G. W. E. Russell For Better? For Worse? iv. 58 The most gorgeous mansion in Cromwell Road or Tyburnia could never for a moment be quoted as supplying the place of the Hall or the Manor. 1973 Country Life 15 Nov. 1528/1 By the mid-1830s in Tyburnia stucco was replacing brick-facing. Derivatives Tyˈburnian adj. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > named cities or towns > [adjective] > in Britain > London > parts of Whitechapel1785 west end1820 Mayfair1843 Belgravian1848 Tyburnian1850 West Endian1856 West Central1857 West Endy1890 Kensingtonian1902 Mayfairish1938 South Bank1951 1850 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis II. xi. 104 The great lawyers are giving grand dinner parties at their houses in the Belgravian or Tyburnian districts. 1860 Once a Week 28 July 124/2 The gallows, called ‘Tyburn Tree’..had been for years a standing fixture on..the Edgware Road,..but this was..the second Tyburnian location of the gallows. 1973 Country Life 15 Nov. 1528/1 The circular turrets..contemporary with the earliest Tyburnian example..appear in Victoria Square. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1848 |
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