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单词 leadenhall market
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Leadenhall Market
Used attributively in Leadenhall Market, a poultry market in London; Leadenhall Street, a street in London which from 1648 to 1861 contained the headquarters of the East India Company, hence designating the Company itself.
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Leadenhall Market1587
1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1348/2 The northwest corner of Leaden hall (the highest ground of the citie of London).
1720 J. Strype Survey of London I. (map) facing p. 2 Leaden Hall Street.
1825 T. Moore Mem. Life R. B. Sheridan I. viii. 367 The people, by the unanimous outcry with which they rose, in defence of the monopoly of Leadenhall Street..proved how little of the ‘vox Dei’ there may..be in such clamour.
1831 J. Boaden Life Mrs. Jordan II. i. 28 It showed, how the elegant mothers of Leadenhall Street, might, with the greatest gentleness, strain their young ones to bosoms equally soft, while they themselves were nourished by the blood and sweat of the unhappy peasant of Bengal.
1882 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 828/2 The principal markets..are Smithfield (central meat market and poultry market), Leadenhall (poultry and game), Billingsgate (fish), Covent Garden (fruit and vegetables).
1932 P. Spear Nabobs 28 Wellesley's remark about ‘the cheesemongers of Leadenhall Street’ would have horrified them.
1952 M. Bellasis Honourable Company p. viii The factors and merchants, who first went out from Leadenhall Street to ‘shake the pagoda tree’, were transformed in the course of two or three generations into..self-effacing public servants.
1961 Wonderful London (Evening News) 56 Leadenhall market..was rebuilt in 1881.
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