单词 | crown jewel city |
释义 | > as lemmascrown jewel city General attributive and appositive, as (in sense 1) crown jewel room, (in sense 2) crown jewel city, etc. ΚΠ 1826 Morning Post 21 Mar. Works of art..deposited in the Crown Jewel-room. 1871 Pearls from Golden Stream Jan. 6 The Regalia or Crown Jewel Office..is also within the precincts of the Tower. 1903 Burr McIntosh Monthly Apr. And again in January, when he returned this way, on snow-shoes and on sleds, to gain a biding place in the crown jewel lake of all the Northern Wilderness. 1927 Blue Bk. Southern Progress 320/2 Lake Wales, the Crown Jewel city of Florida. 1935 G. Dangerfield Strange Death Liberal Eng. ii. iii. 194 The glass of the Crown Jewel case in the Tower of London was broken by a Mrs Cohen, of Leeds. 1976 J. C. Freund Anat. Merger 9 The so-called ‘crown jewel’ option..enables the purchaser..to buy a particularly desirable segment of the seller's business at an attractive price. 1994 Hispanic Jan. 122/1 The Bolivian people..consider the annual Carnival of Oruro as their crown-jewel contribution to international folklore. 2012 S. Wood Disciple's Guide to Revelation ii. 25 The city of Pergamos in John's day was the third ‘crown jewel’ city, together with Ephesus and Smyrna.., near the coast of the Aegean Sea. < as lemmas |
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