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单词 mediterranean aisle
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mediterranean aisle
mediterranean aisle n. [in quots. with ile and isle, forms not uncommon in Dekker's period but here probably used for a play on words] Obsolete rare (Dekker's name for) the middle aisle of old St Paul's Cathedral, in the 16th–17th centuries a common thoroughfare notorious for criminals and other disreputable people.
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1603 T. Dekker 1603: Wonderfull Yeare sig. D4 How nimble is Sicknes,..The greatest cutter that takes vp the Mediterranean Ile in Powles for his Gallery to walke in, cannot ward off his blowes.
1609 T. Dekker Guls Horne-bk. (1812) 94 Your mediterranean isle is then the only gallery wherein the pictures of all your true fashionate and complemental gulls are..hung up.
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