单词 | temple-bar |
释义 | Temple-barn. The name of the barrier or gateway closing the entrance into the City of London from the Strand; removed in 1878. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > a barrier > [noun] > a barrier at city entrance > specific Temple-bar1354 1354 Rolls of Parl.: Edward III (Electronic ed.) Parl. Apr. 1354 §49. m. 1 Qe l'estaple de Westm' comence sa bounde a Templebarre. c1400 Brut (Rawl. B. 171) 238 Seynt Clementis cherche wiþout Temple-Barr. 1467–8 Rolls of Parl.: Edward IV (Electronic ed.) Parl. June 1467 §8. m. 5 A tenement withoute the temple barres of London. 1598 J. Stow Suruay of London 151 The Queenes Maiestie..entred the citie, by Temple Bar, through Fleetestreete, Cheape [etc.]. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited entry) Temples, among us, are two Inns of Court; thus call'd, because anciently the Dwelling-House of the Knights Templars... They are call'd the Inner and Middle Temple, in relation to Essex House, which was also a Part of the House of the Templars, and call'd the Outer Temple, because situate without Temple-Bar. 1773 S. Johnson 30 Apr. in Boswell Life (1887) II. 238 When we got to Temple-bar he [Goldsmith] stopped me, pointed to the [rebels'] heads upon it, and slily whispered me ‘Forsitan et nostrum nomen miscebitur istis’. 1851 London as it is To-day (1855) i. 9 At [the] extremity [of Fleet St.], separating the cities of London and Westminster, stands Temple Bar, the only one of the city boundaries now remaining. 1864 R. Chambers Bk. of Days II. 233/2 The heads of these two [sc. Jacobites executed in 1746] were..stuck over Temple Bar, where they remained till 1772. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1354 |
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