Glastonburyn.
/ˈɡlast(ə)nb(ə)ri/, /ˈɡlɑːst(ə)nb(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈɡlæstənˌbɛri/ Used attributively in Glastonbury chair n. a kind of armchair, designed in imitation of ‘the Abbot of Glastonbury's chair’ preserved in the Bishop's Palace at Wells (see drawing in Litchfield Hist. Furniture 78). Glastonbury thorn n. a variety of hawthorn (see quot. 1879).
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > thorny berry-bush > [noun] > hawthorn and allies
hawthorna700
hawthorn-treec1290
whitethorna1300
haw-treec1325
albespyne?a1425
thorn-tree1483
mespilus1548
may-branch1560
quickthorn1571
hedge-bush1576
busket1579
May-bush1579
Neapolitan medlar1597
azarole1658
pyracanth1664
white bush1676
Glastonbury thorna1697
quick1727
evergreen thorn1731
blackthorn1737
whitethorn1788
oriental medlar1797
haw1821
May-haw1840
Maythorn1844
May1848
pear thorn1848
pink thorn1852
aronia thorn1882
scarlet thorn1882
black haw1897
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > chair > [noun] > armchair > other armchairs
great chair1749
porter's chair1806
sleepy-hollow chair1820
roundabout1834
Glastonbury chair1853
frowst1905
club chair1919
carver1927
a1697 J. Aubrey Nat. Hist. Wilts. (1847) i. ix. 57 Mr. Anthony Hinton..did inoculate..a bud of Glastonbury Thorne, on a thorne at his farm-house at Wilton, which blossomes at Christmas as the other did.
1733 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. Mespilus..The Glastenbury Thorn.
1853 Cox & Sons' Acc. Ch. Ornaments, etc. (1858) 17 Carved Glastonbury Chairs of the annexed design are manufactured at a very moderate price.
1868 C. L. Eastlake Hints Househ. Taste ii. 57 As a rule, the ‘Glastonbury’ chairs and ‘antique’ bookcases sold in that venerable thoroughfare [Wardour St.] will prove..to be nothing but gross libels on the style of art which they are supposed to represent.
1873 M. E. Braddon Strangers & Pilgrims iii. vi. 288 Seated in a Glastonbury chair within the shelter of the porch.
1879 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names Glastonbury Thorn, an early-flowering variety of Cratægus Oxyacantha, popularly supposed to have sprung up at Glastonbury from the staff of Joseph of Arimathea, and to produce its blossoms on Christmas-day.
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