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Literature | Charing Cross Not from chère reine, in honour of Eleanor, the dear wife of Edward I., but la chère reine (the Blessed Virgin). Hence, in the Close Roll, Richard II, part I (1382), we read that the custody of the falcons at Charryng, near Westminster, was granted to Simon Burley, who was to receive 12d. a day from the Wardrobe. A correspondent in Notes and Queries, Dec. 28th, 1889, p. 507, suggests the Anglo-Saxon cérran (to turn), alluding to the bend of the Thames. "Queen Eleanor died at Harby, Nottinghamshire, and was buried at Westminster. In every town where the corpse rested the king caused a cross `of cunning workmanship' to be erected in remembrance of her. There were fourteen, some say fifteen, altogether. The three which remain are in capitals: Lincoln, Newark, Grantham, Leicester, Stamford, GEDDINGTON, NORTHAMPTON, Stony-Stratford, Woburn, Dunstable, St. Albans, WALTHAM, West-Cheap (Cheapside), Charing, and (15th Herdly?)" In front of the South Eastern Railway station (Strand) is a model, in the original dimensions, of the old cross, which was made of Caen stone, and was demolished in 1643. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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It was one of twelve places where Eleanor's coffin rested overnight during the funeral procession from Lincolnshire to her final resting-place at Westminster. At each of these, Edward erected an "Eleanor cross", of which only three now remain. The one which stands at Charing Cross, in front of the railway station, is a re-located Victorian "copy" (designed by architect Edward Middleton Barry) of the original - the latter having stood where a statue of King Charles I of England is now to be found. According to historians, the original cross was not nearly as large or ornate as the Victorian version.
"Charing Cross" is a corruption of "cher reine cross", that being French for "dear queen" and referring to the Eleanor Cross that was erected there.
Samuel Johnson is quoted as saying "I think the full tide of human existence is at Charing-Cross." Source: Life of Johnson (J. Boswell), Vol. II Its probably as true now as it was then.
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Publication | Proclaim, herald, blazon; blaze abroad, noise abroad; sound a trumpet; trumpet forth, thunder forth; give tongue; announce with beat of drum, announce with flourish of trumpets; proclaim from the housetops, proclaim at Charing Cross. |
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Crosswords: CHARING CROSS |
| English words defined with "CHARING CROSS": West end. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Charing Cross Road (1935) 84 Charing Cross Road (1986) | |
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 | Entry to the Strand from Charing Cross / T.S. Boys, del. et lith. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Charing Cross Bridge. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Tangled Tale | Carroll, Lewis | Three hours had passed away, and the two friends met again on the Charing Cross platform, and eagerly compared notes. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | In the single parish of Charing Cross, there are a hundred deaths a year from starvation. |
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Expression using "CHARING CROSS": proclaim at Charing Cross. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
84 charing cross road | 22 |
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thistle charing cross | 8 |
charing cross hospital | 8 |
charing cross hotel | 6 |
charing cross station | 3 |
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charing cross road | 3 |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-g-h-i-n-o-r-r-s-s" | |
-3 letters: crosshair, garrisons, scorching. | |
-4 letters: archings, assignor, carrions, chagrins, charring, chasings, chicanos, choragic, chronics, coaching, cochairs, corsairs, crashing, crossing, garrison, narcosis, orangish, organics, roaching, roarings, sacrings, scarring, scraichs, scraighs, shorings, signoras, soarings. | |
-5 letters: acronic, anchors, arching, archons, arshins, caching, caisson, carrion, carroch, cashing, casings, casinos, cassino, chagrin, charing, charros, chasing, chicano, choragi, choring, chronic. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 48 41 52 49 4E 47 43 52 4F 53 53 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01001000 01000001 01010010 01001001 01001110 01000111 00100000 01000011 01010010 01001111 01010011 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C H A R I N G   C R O S S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0048 0041 0052 0049 004E 0047 0043 0052 004F 0053 0053 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3742355243484123752495353 |
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