| 单词 | plague pit |
| 释义 | > as lemmasplague pit plague pit n. historical a deep pit for the common burial of plague victims; also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > grave or burial-place > [noun] > common grave polyandrionc1612 polyandruma1661 plague pit1841 mass grave1895 1841 W. H. Ainsworth Old St. Pauls I. 300 In Finsbury fields..plague-pits had been digged and pest-houses erected. 1949 E. Blunden After Bombing 32 Few indeed Prefer the barbed wire and the ravaged town, The plague-pit where themselves and myriads bleed, To the moon rising over the dreaming down. 2004 Mail on Sunday (Nexis) 21 Mar. 68 There is no Tube stop at Muswell Hill..because this pretty villagey bit of London is actually built over a plague pit. < as lemmas |
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