Gretna Green

名词 n. 形容词 adj. 专有名词
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any town with liberal marriage laws, a place where couples elope.
    — It was nothing more nor less than to convert all places licensed under the Toleration Act into Gretna Greens, where persons of all persuasions might go and make irregular marriages.
形容词 adj.
  1. carried out quickly and secretively in a jurisdiction that is not the bride or groom's own. (of a marriage) not-comparable
    — There has been a Gretna Green marriage in Brockville. Miss Mary Ann Hall and a Mr. Underwood ran away to Ogdensburg (New York) and got married last week and was back again the night before last.
专有名词
  1. A village on the border between England and Scotland (in Dumfries and Galloway council area just inside Scotland), famous for easy marriages (OS grid ref NY3168).
    — The Clown is a London cockney, with a prodigious eye to his own comfort and muffins,—a Lord Mayor's fool, who loved "everything that was good;" and Columbine is the boarding-school girl, ripe for running away with, and making a dance of it all the way from Chelsea to Gretna Green.

词形变化

Gretna Greens plural

词源

词源 1
"Green at the gravelly hill", from Old English greot (“grit”) and hoh (“hill”).
词源 2
"Green at the gravelly hill", from Old English greot (“grit”) and hoh (“hill”).
词源 3
"Green at the gravelly hill", from Old English greot (“grit”) and hoh (“hill”).
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