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Vauxhall|vɒksˈhɔːl|
[The name of a locality in London on the south bank of the Thames, where Vauxhall Gardens (see def.) were situated.]
1. a. Used ellipt. for Vauxhall Gardens, a popular pleasure resort from the 17th to the middle of the 19th century; a place of resort or amusement resembling or imitating this.
Evelyn records in his memoirs under the date 2 July 1661, ‘I went to see the New Spring Garden at Lambeth, a pretty contriv'd plantation’. The gardens were finally closed on 25 July 1859.
1769Ann. Reg., Chron. 111 Sieur Torre opened his new Vauxhall, near St. Martin's gate [in Paris], under the denomination of the Feasts of Tempe. 1815Ibid., Chron. 50 Mr. Sadler appeared in Mr. Harper's gardens, or the Vauxhall of this place [sc. Norwich], in the evening.
attrib.1822Lond. Lit. Gaz. 61/1 But the portions [of food] are of the Vauxhall order. 1892Dobson 18th Cent. Vignettes 253 The popular legend that an expert Vauxhall waiter could cover the entire garden (about eleven acres) with slices from one ham.
b. Comb., as Vauxhall lamp, light, an ornamental glass lantern designed to hold a candle and used for outdoor illumination.
1907Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 258/2 Garden or Vauxhall lamps. For illuminations, &c. Diamond moulding, size 2½ in. by 3½ in... Wired ready for hanging. 1974Country Life 17 Oct. 1075/3 A pleasure ground..at Tollard Royal..in late Victorian and Edwardian times... The Gardens were illuminated with thousands of Vauxhall lights.
2. Used attrib. and absol. to designate antique plate glass resembling that made at the Vauxhall Glassworks from c 1663 to the end of the 18th cent.
1830W. Dawson in W. H. Bowles Hist. Vauxhall & Ratcliff Glass Houses (1926) 58 Edward Dawson of the Glass House Vauxhall who died Jan. 12 1755 made some great improvements which enabled John Dawson his son to produce those brilliant glasses still distinguished as ‘Vauxhall plates’. 1900Archit. Rev. June p. xxii, The mirror has a flat bevel, after the manner of the old Vauxhall plates. 1926W. H. Bowles Hist. Vauxhall & Ratcliff Glass Houses iii. 19 To this day all mirrors made in this country between 1670 and 1750 are styled by dealers ‘Vauxhall’. 1972Country Life 27 Jan. (Suppl.) 24/1 (Advt.), Queen Anne walnut bureau-bookcase..retaining original Vauxhall mirror door. 1975Oxf. Compan. Decorative Arts 571/1 In 1663 the second Duke of Buckingham established a plate-glass manufactory at Vauxhall, of which the products have become legendary. The term ‘Vauxhall glass’ has for long been used to describe any old-looking mirror although no existing example can be traced with certainty to that source. 1977Times 20 Aug. 8/5 English merchants began to export Vauxhall glass..to China.
Hence Vauxˈhallian a., Vauxˈhallify v. trans.
1815Southey Lett. (1856) II. 429 There is an illumination to-night in the Allée Vert, or Green Walk, which is to be Vauxhallified in honour of the Emperor. 1827Westm. Rev. VIII. 353 Here follows a description of a very gay festival, much more Vauxhallian than Attic. |