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单词 canterbury tale
释义 canterbury tale
noun
or canterbury story
Usage: usually capitalized C
Etymology: from The Canterbury Tales, literary work by Geoffrey Chaucer died 1400 English poet, consisting mostly of narrative poems which he puts into the mouths of persons on a pilgrimage to Canterbury
1. : a cock-and-bull story : yarn, fable
 < a Canterbury tale of a leg and an eye and heaven knows what — George Colman †1794 >
2. : a long tedious tale
 < it grows into a long Canterbury tale of two hours — Richard Steele >
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