Kensal Greenn.

Brit.

/ˌkɛnsl ˈɡriːn/, U.S.

/ˌkɛns(ə)l ˈɡrin/

Etymology: < Kensal Green, 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 figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > [noun] > symbolized

dead man's head1546

death's head1563

death-head1569

billow1592

death's face1598

scythe1609

caput mortuum1694

thigh-bone1825

skull1826

Kensal Green1842

calavera1904

1842 C. Dickens Let. 26 Apr. (1974) III. 211 What would I give if the dear girl whose ashes lie in Kensal-green, had lived.

c1885 A. 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.

1903 R. Kipling Five Nations 122 That Kensall-Green of greatness called the files.

1914 G. K. Chesterton Flying Inn xxi. 252 Before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

1967 O. Lancaster With 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.

1975 P. 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.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	kensal green
释义	Kensal Greenn. Brit. /ˌkɛnsl ˈɡriːn/, U.S. /ˌkɛns(ə)l ˈɡrin/ Etymology: < Kensal Green, 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 figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > [noun] > symbolized dead man's head1546 death's head1563 death-head1569 billow1592 death's face1598 scythe1609 caput mortuum1694 thigh-bone1825 skull1826 Kensal Green1842 calavera1904 1842 C. Dickens Let. 26 Apr. (1974) III. 211 What would I give if the dear girl whose ashes lie in Kensal-green, had lived. c1885 A. 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. 1903 R. Kipling Five Nations 122 That Kensall-Green of greatness called the files. 1914 G. K. Chesterton Flying Inn xxi. 252 Before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green. 1967 O. Lancaster With 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. 1975 P. 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1842
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