| 单词 | black museum |
| 释义 | > as lemmasBlack Museum Black Museum n. colloquial the Crime Museum of the Metropolitan Police in London, consisting of exhibits connected with crimes of the past. ΘΚΠ society > communication > manifestation > showing to the sight > exposure to public view > an exhibition > [noun] > exhibit > collection > specific Black Museum1877 1877 Observer 8 Apr. 3/3 The building is, indeed, as it is called, a Black Museum, for it is associated with whatever is darkest in human nature. 1902 A. Griffiths Myst. Police & Crime III. xxxiii. 124 Some very beautiful implements are now exhibited in the Black Museum of New Scotland Yard... Amongst these..are some of the tools used by the notorious Charles Peace. 1997 P. D. James Certain Justice iv. 383 She remembered a visit paid a year ago to the Black Museum at Scotland Yard, the high shelf with the rows of death masks—only they had been death heads—of executed criminals. < as lemmas |
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