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单词 luckenbooth
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luckenboothn.

Brit. /ˈlʌk(ə)nˌbuːð/, /ˈlʌk(ə)nˌbuːθ/, U.S. /ˈlək(ə)nˌbuθ/, Scottish English /ˈlʌk(ə)nˌbuθ/
Forms:

α. See lucken adj. and booth n.; also 1800s lucky-booth.

β. pre-1700 lockenbuith, pre-1700 locking buith, pre-1700 1700s– lockenbooth (now rare).

Also with capital initial.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: lucken adj., booth n.
Etymology: < lucken adj. + booth n.; in β. forms with alteration after lock v.1 (compare loken adj.)In form lucky-booth at α. forms showing alteration after lucky adj. In form locking buith at β. forms probably showing an inverse spelling reflecting substitution of alveolar for velar nasal in locking n.
Scottish.
1. A booth or stall which can be closed or locked up; (in plural, with the) the area of a town where such booths are or were located. Now historical.Frequently with reference to the Edinburgh luckenbooths, which occupied part of the High Street immediately to the north of St Giles Kirk (until their demolition in 1817), and where in the 17th and 18th centuries many jewellers and silversmiths had their shops.
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society > trade and finance > trading place > stall or booth > [noun] > types of
luckenbooth1456
booby-hutch1830
bulkhead1836
gutter-stall1889
concession stand1894
1456 Extracts Rec. in W. Chambers Charters Burgh Peebles (1872) 113 Land awest half the Cors and on the North Rau som tym was callet the Lwkyn Bothys.
1527 Protocol Bk. J. Foular (1930) II. 242 xl s. of annuell of Crukis land liand in the Lukkin buthis.
1625 Extracts Accts. Peebles in W. Chambers Charters Burgh Peebles (1872) App. ii. 413 Item. that morning in ane hows at the bak of the Lwikinbuithis at our disioyne. xxx.s.
1656 in M. Wood Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1940) IX. 38 [The only permissible market place defined as lying] betwix the weyhous and the locking buiths on both syds of the streitt.
1699 Edinb. Gaz. 20 Nov. A tenement..consisting of three stories immediatly above the old kirk style in the Luckenbooths.
1733 J. Currie Serm. Church Kirkaldie (new ed.) (title page) Printed for John Briggs and Sold at his Shop in the Locken-booths [Edinburgh].
a1774 R. Fergusson Poems (1785) 177 Would it na fret the hardest stane Beneath the Luckenbooths to grane?
1839 J. Howell in Wilson's Hist. Tales Borders V. 10/2 The buildings of the jail and Luckenbooths hid that part of the street.
1896 S. R. Crockett Grey Man ii. 13 Buying of trittle-trattles at the lucky-booths.
1916 Cent. Mag. July 448/1 St. Giles's, with its crown of Gothic lace-work and its busy lucken-booths.
a1978 A. S. Borrowman Buik o Ruth & Ither Wark in Lallans (1979) 28 There's Darley's Hoose, and mony mair, forby the Tolbuith, wi a wheen hoosen o the poverail, the lans, and the luckenbuiths.
2012 Sun (Nexis) 23 May 31 Luckenbooths were the capital's first jewellery shops, treasure troves of silver and gold.
2. A brooch, usually made of silver, incorporating a design of a heart or two hearts intertwined, and typically given as a token of good luck or love; = luckenbooth brooch n. at Compounds.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > brooch or pin > [noun] > of specific shape or form
scutcheon1483
target1507
tussy1541
crotcheta1685
spray1803
safety pin1850
cluster-pin1873
luckenbooth brooch1882
fáinne1919
luckenbooth1976
1976 Observer 14 Nov. 20/2 (advt.) A Luckenbooth for a loved one costs £4.85.
1983 N.Y. Times 24 July (Travel section) 6/5 Brooches in pewter and silver cost about $7.50, and clan badges and luckenbooths (tokens exchanged between lovers) are about $15.
1991 G. R. Dawes & C. A. Davidov Victorian Jewelry 33 (caption) Silver and blue-enamel luckenbooth.
2012 E. V. Hamilton Highland Hearts xvii. 206 My mother's going to need her smelling salts when she hears Ian gave me a Luckenbooth and I let it get stolen.

Compounds

luckenbooth brooch n. a brooch, usually made of silver, incorporating a design of a heart or two hearts intertwined, and typically given as a token of good luck or love.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > brooch or pin > [noun] > of specific shape or form
scutcheon1483
target1507
tussy1541
crotcheta1685
spray1803
safety pin1850
cluster-pin1873
luckenbooth brooch1882
fáinne1919
luckenbooth1976
1882 Academy 4 Mar. 162/2 The quaint silver ‘Luckenbooth brooch’, the old betrothal gift, fashioned frequently in the form of a heart.
1971 Times 4 Dec. 25/7 (advt.) The Luckenbooth brooch, a traditional Edinburgh design, has been down the centuries everything from a charm against the evil eye to a love token.
2013 J. Dark Water Witch xxv. 254 It was fashioned out of two interlocking hearts—a Scottish design called a luckenbooth brooch.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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