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单词 high cross
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high cross
high cross n. a large cross, often made of stone, set on a pedestal in a marketplace or other central space in a town or village; cf. cross n. 7b. [Attested earlier as a place name: Hyecrosse, Hertfordshire (1418; earlier Heyecrouch (1360); now High Cross).]
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society > communication > record > memorial or monument > [noun] > structure or erection > cross > in town or village
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1457 in E. Hobhouse Church-wardens' Accts. (1890) 99 For makyng faste of the emagys at the hye Croce..xijd.
1486 Short & Brief Memory First Progresse King Henry VII in P. McGrath Bristol Misc. (1985) 4 And at the High Cross there was a pageant ful of maydyn children richely besene, and Prudence had the speech as ensueth.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. ccxliiii Causing Gartier, principal kyng at armes, to make a publique Proclamacion at the high Crosse in the market place of Edenboroughe.
1609 in Digby Myst. (1882) p. xix The pentice at ye highe crosse.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) i. i. 131 To be whipt at the hie crosse euerie morning.
1697 London Gaz. No. 3336/3 A great Bonfire at the High-Cross.
1713 E. Ward Hist. Grand Rebellion II. 220 We may see the Proclamations made At the High-Cross, no other Issue had Than to incense the People but the more.
1810 D. Lysons & S. Lysons Magna Brit. II. 614 In 1583 a conduit was begun by the contrivance of an ingenious workman for conveying water to the High-cross at the expence of the citizens.
1898 M. Stokes High Crosses of Castledermot & Durrow Introd. p. xii The High Cross at Clonmacnois and the Cross of Tuam, though dedicated to the memory of two Irish kings, were certainly not over their graves.
1993 R. Doyle Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (1994) 206 A high-cross that was damaged by vandals.
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