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Billingsgate


Definition:

  • (n.) A market near the Billings gate in London, celebrated for fish and foul language.
  • (n.) Coarsely abusive, foul, or profane language; vituperation; ribaldry.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He did not answer questions about Henley Concierge, but said he was invited to the 2013 event, which took place at Old Billingsgate market, City of London.
  • (2) Billingsgate, for example, raised £250,000 in table charges before the event even began.
  • (3) The court of common council was voting to abolish "the fellowship of the Billingsgate porters" which has been recognised since 1632.
  • (4) Meanwhile, between the towers of Canary Wharf and Billingsgate, displacing the water from the dock, the first embryonic Crossrail station has already taken shape.
  • (5) He added, "as we know, there are more than enough tossers in Billingsgate market".
  • (6) It is possible to buy UK-caught crayfish, online from the likes of simplycrayfish.co.uk , and markets such as Billingsgate, while Pret and The Big Prawn Company say they would consider selling a line of UK-caught crayfish if there was demand.
  • (7) He stayed charming at Billingsgate market where I tested his knowledge of our most common commercial fish species, and remained polite and courteous while I hassled him in his constituency office for more ambitious marine protection around the coast of the UK.
  • (8) "The Billingsgate porters are one of the most ancient workforces in the country and the Corporation of London wants to make them redundant.
  • (9) The debate about why Labour went wrong and how it can become stronger is of the highest importance in renewing a movement that can resist the power that robbed the Billingsgate porters of their civic inheritance.
  • (10) Auction proceeds and table charges will bring in directly around £1m, but after Billingsgate last year another £1.1m was registered as donations in the week after the event.
  • (11) The venue was the former fishmarket at Old Billingsgate.
  • (12) He turns 60, or as he quips turns 40, this year (a party in Billingsgate is planned), but now has a seven-month-old daughter, Angel, with his girlfriend, Joy Canfield.
  • (13) The even is in Old Billingsgate market hall, where there is also a live link to New York.
  • (14) We used a traditional butcher for our meat, and went to Billingsgate market for our fish.
  • (15) The veteran actor Timothy West has also joined the show as Carter's father Stan, a curmudgeonly and opinionated former Billingsgate fishmonger.
  • (16) As white-coated staff wheel racks of hanging cured salmon into the vast kilns for smoking, proprietor Lance Forman explains the London Cure method began when a relative discovered fresh wild Scottish salmon at nearby Billingsgate, and developed a cure that complemented its flavour.
  • (17) He also paid for two tables at last year's Conservative fundraiser at Old Billingsgate market where, according to the guest plan, invitees included U&C chairman Brooks Newmark MP and Anne-Marie Trevelyan, a Tory hopeful who is bidding to win the marginal seat of Berwick-on-Tweed, currently held by the Lib Dems.
  • (18) There are moments of levity: when Bill Lincoln is giving evidence about his alibi (buying fish at Billingsgate market on Good Friday), it transpires that he is known by friends as “Billy the Fish”; James Creighton, the mate he meets when he has his regular Turkish bath, and who gives evidence on his behalf, is known as “Jimmy Two Baths”.
  • (19) Smoked salmon is indeed delicious, but wreaks havoc with your ability to charm – difficult to make friends when you smell like the insoles of a Billingsgate fish trader.
  • (20) Meanwhile the design of its silver pods is offensively indifferent to the dignified buildings, such as Old Billingsgate Market, on which they intrude, and actually do not seem well suited to the events that might go on inside them.

Coarse


Definition:

  • (superl.) Large in bulk, or composed of large parts or particles; of inferior quality or appearance; not fine in material or close in texture; gross; thick; rough; -- opposed to fine; as, coarse sand; coarse thread; coarse cloth; coarse bread.
  • (superl.) Not refined; rough; rude; unpolished; gross; indelicate; as, coarse manners; coarse language.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Epithelial thymoma is characterized by coarse-fiber stroma, perivascular grouping of cell elements and the lack of glycogen in them.
  • (2) Foveal involvement included coarse foveal granularity, thinning of the foveal retinal pigment epithelium, increasing encirclement of the fovea with focal areas of atrophy, and minimal macular drusen.
  • (3) In 11 of these 20 patients, visual sensitivity to detail of medium coarseness was markedly degraded, even though sensitivity to both coarse and fine detail was unimpaired.
  • (4) In it he translated Trump’s coarse ramblings into charming straight talk and came up with the phrase “truthful hyperbole”, which captures brilliantly an approach to business and politics in which everything is the greatest, the most beautiful.
  • (5) Characteristic coarse facial features and shortness of stature were observed in all cases.
  • (6) The pulp cavity is reduced in size with age (maturation stage), in which the characteristic three vascular layers are changed into a one-layer coarse terminal capillary network which converges directly with the main venules.
  • (7) (3) Their operative findings were different from ordinary Graves' goiters in that colors of the goiter were yellow-red or gray-red, surface was rough and coarse, consistency was firm, and adhesions with the adjacent connective tissue were noted.
  • (8) Attempts were made to purify the LH-releasing substance extracted from the leaves of Avena sativa by means of two-step chromatographic procedures using a weakly acidic ion-exchange resin (CG-50,type II) and DEAE-Sephadex A-25 (coarse) with successful results.
  • (9) First-time measurements of the potentially toxic inorganic species of arsenic (arsenite and arsenate) have been obtained in fine (less than 2.5 microns AD) and coarse (greater than 2.5 microns AD) atmospheric particles in the Los Angeles area.
  • (10) An abnormal great number of microtubules and coarsed fibers were frequently randomly scattered throughout the cytoplasmic droplet.
  • (11) Motorized linear slides used as micromanipulators for biological use suffer from 3 problems: vibration at low speed, poor ergonomic design of the controller and slow coarse positioning.
  • (12) Each antibody stained 2 populations of cortical nonpyramidal neurons: (1) A small number of large, intensely stained cells that give rise to long, coarsely beaded processes; (2) a relatively large number of small, lightly stained cells that are embedded in dense plexuses of stained punctate profiles.
  • (13) In the Pagalunggan subdistrict, all females used uniodised salt with 17.6% using fine salt, 20% using coarse salt and the remainder using both fine and coarse salt.
  • (14) Thygeson's keratitis is characterized by a coarse punctate epithelial keratitis with almost no hyperaemia of the conjunctiva.
  • (15) The particles selected by CYBEST as "abnormal cells" at the stage of coarse scanning were examined by direct microscopy to determine whether they were actural cells or not.
  • (16) Fine wrinkling, coarse wrinkling, sallowness, looseness, and hyperpigmentation were significantly improved with tretinoin therapy.
  • (17) Coarse, linear densities are also observed, and pleural effusion is seen in many patients.
  • (18) Serves 4 100g butter, at room temperature 150g flour 50g ground almonds 30g suet 1 egg yolk 50g cooked chestnuts, chopped 5 tbsp chopped fresh thyme Salt and black pepper For the leeks 1kg leeks, trimmed 100g butter Salt and pepper 200ml double cream 1 tsp nutmeg 1 To make the crumble topping, work the butter into the flour until it resembles coarse breadcrumbs, then add the ground almonds and suet.
  • (19) 400g cooked or tinned butterbeans 1 tsp ground cumin 10ml lemon juice ¼ clove garlic, peeled and finely minced 1 small handful picked flat-leaf parsley, finely chopped 1 tbsp plain flour (gluten-free flour also works fine) 1 tsp salt 1 egg 1 spring onion, trimmed and finely sliced 50g breadcrumbs 100g feta (or other crumbly goat's or sheep's cheese) Put the butterbeans, cumin, lemon juice, garlic, parsley, flour, salt and egg in a food processor and blitz to a coarse paste: you don't want the mix fully pureed, otherwise the burgers will be too wet and will fall apart on the grill.
  • (20) In women who received free-silicone injections, coarse calcifications developed in three, and gross nodularity with calcified silicone granulomas developed in one.

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