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swordlength
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From sword + length. Compare Middle English swerde-length, swerd lengthe.
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swordlength (複数形 swordlengths)
- A distance equal to the length of a sword.
- 1852 June 24, John Ruskin, John Lewis Bradley, editor, Ruskin’s Letters from Venice, 1851-1852, New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press; London: Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, published 1955, →LCCN, page 308:
- All danger of that, however—which (though of course I should have done it unhesitatingly,) would have been not a little disagreeable in a country where respectability is measured by swordlengths just as silk is by yardlengths—is entirely over.
- 1985, The 1001 Carpet Book, The Sales Machine Ltd, page 20:
- Did you know that the House of Commons carpet has 2 contrasting strips of colour, one in front of each of the front benches? These are two swordlengths with arms at full stretch apart and the MPs must stand behind thes[sic] lines at all times to prevent discussions collapsing into a duel!
- 1989, David McDowall, An Illustrated History of Britain, Longman, published 2006, →ISBN, page 141:
- The Speaker’s responsibility was to ensure the orderly conduct of parliamentary business. To help him, a line along the floor (running under the feet of one of Gladstone’s colleagues) marks the boundary each MP had to stay behind on each side of the House. This was to avoid angry arguments becoming fights. The two lines are two swordlengths’ distance apart.
- 1991, Richard Saul Wurman, London Access, second edition, ACCESS®PRESS, →ISBN, page 14, column 1:
- 2010, Cameron Kent, When the Ravens Die, Plot Hound Books, →ISBN, pages 71–72:
- Amid the din, the Speaker recognized the Conservative’s Michael Bottsford of Warrington North, sitting on the opposition side of the party benches that were exactly two drawn swordlengths apart.
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