单词 | mount of pity |
释义 | Mount of Pityn. = Mount of Piety n. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > moneylending > [noun] > loan-shop mountain of piety1617 loan-house1622 Mount of Pietya1630 Monte di Pietà1654 loan-bank1662 loan-office1720 Mount of Pity1792 lending-house1797 Mont de Piété1840 loan-shop1849 1792 T. Holcroft Anna St. Ives II. xxi. 152 I had no money. I owed a fellow servant a guinea and a half, which I had borrowed to buy shirts and stockings. And those you have made away with? Not all. I was obliged to take some of them to Mount Pity. 1871 Ladies' Repository 7 92/1 I have just returned from the Monte di Pietà. It is a Mount of Pity that will blind your eyes as you pass through it. 1971 Guardian 16 Aug. 2/8 Rome's ‘Monte di Pieta’, the municipal pawnshop... The ‘Mount of Pity’ extracts a high interest rate. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1792 |
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