Meanings
- formalnot comparableobsoleteuncommonDown there.
My Love she is an Old Girl, out of Fashion, Bugles at the Bosom, and theredown a much Thumbed Mystery and a Maze.
1926 (date written), Djuna Barnes, “Ladies Almanack”, in Margaret Reynolds, editor, The Penguin Book of Lesbian Short Stories, Viking, published 1993, page 522 more examples
Now the lane was shaded with willows, and having walked theredown a half-mile or so, you would have seen a quivering gleam, that was not upon their moon-lit leaves, […]
1851 June 29, “An Evening Stroll”, in The Nassau Literary Magazine, volume X, number VIII, page 271Mythical country village created by broadcaster Gillie Potter, who regularly reported via radio of the doings theredown.
1985, Denis Gifford, The Golden Age of Radio, London: B. T. Batsford, page 116
Origin
- Middle Englishtherdoune
- Englishtheredown
From Middle English therdoune. Equivalent to there + down.
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