| 单词 | birthday gazette |
| 释义 | > as lemmasBirthday Gazette Birthday Gazette n. (also with lower-case initials) now historical and rare (the title of) a gazette produced on the official birthday of the British sovereign, containing a list of the awards and honours conferred to mark the occasion; cf. birthday honours list n.Typically published as a supplement to an official government gazette (see gazette n. 2a). ΘΚΠ society > communication > journalism > journal > periodical > [noun] > official gazettes gazette1665 hue and cry1827 Birthday Gazette1869 1869 Pall Mall Gaz. 23 Aug. 3/1 Can the Secretary of State have any idea of the astonishment and derision with which the birthday gazette was received in this country [sc. India]? 1936 Weekly Irish Times 25 Jan. (Suppl. section) p. ii/3 The Birthday Gazette announced that the titles of the Duke of York, Earl of Inverness, and Baron Killarney had been bestowed upon him by the Sovereign. 1997 M. W. Daly Sirdar xix. 200 Wingate joined his wife at Karlsbad on 15 June. It was there that he got word of the king's Birthday Gazette, in which he was made a G.C.B. < as lemmas |
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