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单词 arthur's round table
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(King) Arthur's Round Table
3. Any of various (typically circular) natural or man-made formations reputedly associated with King Arthur. Frequently more fully (King) Arthur's Round Table.
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c1470 in C. Innes Registrum Episcopatus Aberdonensis (1845) I. 306 Terra Roberti Wode..nuncupata lye Rownde Tabill.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xiii. 379 Beneth the castell [of Stirling] went thai soyne, Richt by the rownde tabill thair way.
1559 D. Lindsay Test. Papyngo l. 634 in Wks. (1931) I Adew, fair Snawdoun, with thy touris hie, Thy Chapell royall, Park, and tabyll rounde!
1612 J. Selden in M. Drayton Poly-olbion iv. Illustr. 70 In Denbighshire..is a circular plaine, cut out of a maine rocke, with some XXIV. seats vnequall, which they call Arthurs Round Table.
1641 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1871) I. 270 The mercheant booth..lyand in the Round Tabill.
1708 P. Gordon Geogr. Anatomiz'd (ed. 5) ii. i. 214 In the North of Westmorland, is a round Entrenchment with a plain piece of Ground in the middle, commonly term'd K. Arthur's round Table.
1767 P. Luckombe Beauties of Eng. (ed. 3) 320 Lhansannam, 7 miles from Denbigh, is noted for a cave in the side of a rock, containing 24 seats,..now called Arthur's round table.
1813 W. Scott Bridal of Triermain i. vii. 24 He pass'd red Penrith's Table Round, For feats of chivalry renown'd.
1872 C. Hardwick Trad., Superstitions, & Folk-lore 216 Several circular mounds in various parts of England..are..honoured with the name of ‘King Arthur's Round Table’.
1913 J. D. Abraham Motor Ways in Lakeland ix. 178 The circular mound, altogether covered with grass and known as King Arthur's Round Table, lies in a field just opposite the Crown Inn.
2002 S. Blake & S. Lloyd Pendragon vii. 168 The remains of the Roman amphitheatre at Caerleon in South Wales were long known as Arthur's Round Table, until excavation in the 1920s disproved this claim.
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