domesday
Americannoun
noun
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Last fortnight a little grey pamphlet made its appearance in Oxford, containing many of these old rules, resurrected from ancient domesday books and dusted off, or written freshly to meet modern conditions.
From Time Magazine Archive
If you both stop here till domesday," said Geoffrey, "you'll get nothing more out of me.
From Man and Wife by Collins, Wilkie
In this division we have in hand among other things the preparation of a domesday book for the Province.
From The Ontario Archives Scope of its Operations by Fraser, Alexander
God's acre gazing toward the sky, 'Midst sombre shade 'neath angel's eye Thou sleepest till the domesday knell.
From The Mound Builders by Bryce, George
As early as the conquest mention is made in domesday book of fumage or fuage, vulgarly called smoke farthings; which were paid by custom to the king for every chimney in the house.
From Commentaries on the Laws of England Book the First by Blackstone, William, Sir
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