| 单词 | oxford circus |
| 释义 | > as lemmasOxford Circus 7. A circular range of houses. Also, a traffic roundabout. Often in proper names as Oxford Circus, Regent Circus. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > part of town or city > [noun] > row or street of buildings > in crescent or circle circus1712 crescent1766 society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > junction of roads, paths, or tracks > [noun] > types of road junction > roundabout circus1898 rond-point1903 rotonda1908 traffic circle1914 roundabout1926 rotary1940 gyratory1983 modern roundabout1987 1712 A. Pope Rape of Locke ii, in Misc. Poems 366 Sooner shall Grass in Hide-Park Circus grow. [A fashionable circular drive, called the ‘Ring’ in Chas. I's time.] 1766 C. Anstey New Bath Guide ix. i. 57 To breathe a purer Air In the Circus or the Square. 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 68 The same artist, who planned the Circus, has likewise projected a Crescent [at Bath]. 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 66 The Circus is a pretty bauble..and looks like Vespasian's amphitheatre turned outside in. 1794 W. Roberts Looker-on No. 85. 676 The squares and circuses are no longer the only scenes of dignified dissipation. 1898 Tit-Bits 15 Jan. 300/3 Bridges, of light and tasty design, across all the main thoroughfares, and at the various ‘circuses’ and cross roads. < as lemmas |
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