单词 | Colinderies |
释义 | Coˈlinderies, n. pl. [f. Colonies + India, with ending as in Fisheries, the name of a previous Exhibition. ‘Colind’ was the registered telegraphic address; whence, Colindia, Colindies, Colindian, also proposed names. See Daily Telegraph 8 May 1886.] A half-jocular name for the Colonial and Indian Exhibition held in London in 1886.
1886Ch. Times 7 May 347/2 As it is chiefly concerned with the Colonies and India, it has been proposed to call it the ‘Colinderies’. 1887Fortn. Rev. Mar. 384 The educationally useful exhibits of the late ‘Colinderies’. |

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