grimthorpe

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To renovate an old building or structure in a lavish and expensive, yet tasteless fashion which spoils its original beauty. dated,transitive
    — "Look, just because this junky train has been grimthorped doesn't mean that I have to sit and listen to you two psychopaths read through the encyclopedia of death," Natalia scolded.

词形变化

grimthorpes present,singular,third-person grimthorping participle,present grimthorped participle,past grimthorped past Grimthorpe alternative

词源

In reference to the renovation of the St Albans Cathedral in the 19th century by Edmund Beckett, 1st Baron Grimthorpe, which was fiercely criticized at the time.
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