| 单词 | Glastonbury |
| 释义 | Glastonbury|ˈglɑːstənbərɪ, -æ-|
[A town in Somersetshire, famed for its abbey.]
Used attrib. in Glastonbury chair, a kind of arm-chair, designed in imitation of ‘the Abbot of Glastonbury's chair’ preserved in the Bishop's Palace at Wells (see drawing in Litchfield Hist. Furniture 78); Glastonbury thorn, a variety of hawthorn (see quot. 1879).
a1691Aubrey Nat. Hist. Wilts (1847) 57 Mr. Anthony Hinton..did inoculate..a bud of Glastonbury Thorne, on a thorne at his farm-house at Wilton, which blossomes at Christmas as the other did. 1733Miller Gard. Dict., Mespilus..The Glastenbury Thorn. 1853Cox & Sons' Acc. Ch. Ornaments, etc. (1858) 17 Carved Glastonbury Chairs of the annexed design are manufactured at a very moderate price. 1868Eastlake Househ. Taste ii. 57 As a rule, the ‘Glastonbury’ chairs and ‘antique’ bookcases sold in that venerable thoroughfare [Wardour St.] will prove..to be nothing but gross libels on the style of art which they are supposed to represent. 1873M. E. Braddon Str. & Pilgr. iii. vi. 288 Seated in a Glastonbury chair within the shelter of the porch. 1879Britten & Holland Plant-n., Glastonbury Thorn, an early-flowering variety of Cratægus Oxyacantha, popularly supposed to have sprung up at Glastonbury from the staff of Joseph of Arimathea, and to produce its blossoms on Christmas-day. |
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