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Kensal Green|kɛnsəl ˈgriːn|
The site of a large cemetery in London, used allusively as the type of a cemetery or as a symbol of death and burial. Also fig.
1842Dickens Let. 26 Apr. (1974) III. 211 What would I give if the dear girl whose ashes lie in Kensal-Green, had lived. c1885A. W. Pinero in M. R. Booth Eng. Plays of 19th Cent. (1973) IV. 332 In less than that, unless I am lucky enough to fall in some foreign set-to, I shall be in Kensal Green. 1903Kipling Five Nations 122 That Kensall-Green of greatness called the files. 1914G. K. Chesterton Flying Inn xxi. 252 Before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green. 1967O. Lancaster Eye to Future i. 24 My mother was wholly free from the lachrymose necrophilia of the Victorians; not for her the pious outings to Kensal Green. 1975P. Somerville-Large Couch of Earth iv. 73 The necropolis was huge... We wandered about this devasted Kensal Green, Ismael..kicking at the piles of bones. |