Golgotha

1. biblicalThe hill outside Jerusalem where Jesus was crucified.

   "And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha"

   1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, John 19:17

   Synonyms: Calvary

2. obsoleteOxbridge slangThe rooms of the heads of the colleges.First known use 18th–19th c.

   Graduates […] will never forget that majestic stature, that massive brow, that commanding look, as its possessor paced the ante-chapel of his college, or took his seat of presidence among the skulls of Golgotha.

   1881, The Academy, page 407

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   But Printing is not the only, nor the principal uſe, for which theſe ſtupendous ſtone-walls were erected; for here is that famous apartment, by idle wits and buffoons nick-named Golgotha, i.e. the place of Sculls or Heads of colleges and halls, where they meet and debate upon all extraordinary affairs, which occur within the precincts of their juriſdiction.

   1726, Nicholas Amhurst, Terræ-filius: or, the Secret History of the University of Oxford (No. XI), page 59

plural Golgothas

1. A charnel house.
2. UKobsoleteslangA hat.

   […] and finally raised his hat and put it on again, cocked back on one side of his head in exact imitation of the manner in which the tall man carried his golgotha.

   1887, W. T. Eady, I.D.B. Or, The Adventures of Solomon Davis on the Diamond Fields and Elsewhere, page 165

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   […] to the hat-rail; when Wigg went to put it on, it of course resisted, and giving it a spatch, off came the brim. In his fury at the destruction of his “Golgotha,” Wigg rushed to the counter, and seizing a fifty sovereign brass weight, hurled it […]

   1879, Thomas Southwell, Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society, page 271