| 单词 | penny-post letter |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspenny-post letter General attributive, as penny-post letter, etc. ΘΚΠ society > communication > correspondence > letter > [noun] > letters, etc., by method of dispatch or conveyance post-letter1648 ship-letterc1675 by-letter1685 penny-post letter1686 way letter1710 by-night1766 cross-letter1789 twopenny1818 box letter1827 non-paid1829 balloon-letter1870 pigeongram1875 railway letter1891 pneumatogram1894 airmail1918 aerogram1919 airgram1919 air letter1920 pneumatique1924 pneu1926 snail mail1929 aerogramme1934 airgraph1941 1686 London Gaz. No. 2188/4 The General Penny-Post Office is removed from Crosby-House..to Star-Court..in Cornhill. 1688 E. Ashmole Let. in Mem. (1717) 97 Which the Civility of a Penny-Post Letter would have cleared and prevented. 1702 Eng. Theophrastus 358 [Busy bodies] have their stages about the town as regular as a penny postman. 1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued I. i. 262 The penny postman finds no perplexity in his walks to any part of it [i.e. London]. 1801 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1956) II. 774 I wish you immediately to write a penny post letter to Stuart. 1843 Ainsworth's Mag. 5 81 If his wife were to run off with the penny-postman next St. Valentine's Day. 1865 E. C. Gaskell Cousin Phillis iv. 116 The penny-post reform, as people call it, had come into operation a short time before. 2003 Essex Chron. (Nexis) 4 July 76 The letter is also special because of the drawings..by the Irish artist William Mulready, who designed the first penny post envelope. < as lemmas |
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