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Cosa (chi) è Billingsgate - definizione

WARD OF THE CITY OF LONDON
Bellingsgate; Billingsgate Ward
  • This view by Arnold van Haecken depicts Billingsgate in 1736. It captures the everyday market bustle: featuring fishwives, sailors, porters, thieves, quack-medicine men and casual strollers.
  • Bridge]] Wards in 1720
  • The historical extent of the Billingsgate Ward within the City of London
  • 1757 Print by [[Louis Philippe Boitard]], a view of the Legal Quays, between Billingsgate Dock and the Tower. Boitard's engraving, 'Imports from France', provides a satirical look at contemporary Londoners' passion for French luxury goods and manners. By deliberately exaggerating the number of both people and shipping, Boitard's work gives an authentic feel to work on Legal Quays: recording treadwheel cranes, beamscales, Customs’ Officers gauging barrels and porters handling cargo. Smuggling, theft and pilferage of cargoes were rife on both the busy open wharves and in the crowded warehouses.
  • John Rocque's plan of 1746]]. Behind Legal Quays lies Thames Street, with its warehouses, sugar refineries and cooperages.

Billingsgate         
·noun Coarsely abusive, foul, or profane language; vituperation; ribaldry.
II. Billingsgate ·noun A market near the Billings gate in London, celebrated for fish and foul language.
billingsgate         
n.
Ribaldry, foul language. See abuse, n.
Old Billingsgate         
EVENTS VENUE AND FORMER MARKET IN LONDON
Old Billingsgate Market
Old Billingsgate Market is the name given to what is now a hospitality and events venue in the City of London, based in the Victorian building that was originally Billingsgate Fish Market, the world's largest fish market in the 19th century.

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Billingsgate

Billingsgate is one of the 25 Wards of the City of London. This small City Ward is situated on the north bank of the River Thames between London Bridge and Tower Bridge in the south-east of the Square Mile.

The modern Ward extends south to the Thames, west to Lovat Lane and Rood Lane, north to Fenchurch Street and Dunster Court, and east to Mark Lane and St Dunstan's Hill.

Esempi dal corpus di testo per Billingsgate
1. Fish were procured daily from Billingsgate Market and feeding time was one of the day‘s highlights.
2. Stockhausen, the pioneer of electronic music, will perform solo in the 1,000–capacity old Billingsgate market in London.
3. Frost, 64, of the 100 block of Billingsgate Lane listed the politicians as "potential targets," along with other people.
4. Going to Billingsgate reminds her of the London she used to know, before ‘everything got messed up‘, as she puts it.
5. The girls were treated to an estimated 100,000 after–party at Old Billingsgate Market, where the venue was transformed for the New–York themed party.