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Doomsday Book   /dˈumzdˌeɪ bʊk/   Listen
Doomsday Book

noun
1.
Record of a British census and land survey in 1085-1086 ordered by William the Conqueror.  Synonym: Domesday Book.





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"Doomsday Book" Quotes from Famous Books



... Greie as the morne before the ruddie flame 415 Of Phoebus charyotte rollynge thro the skie, Greie as the steel-horn'd goats Conyan made tame, So greie appeard her featly sparklyng eye; Those eyne, that did oft mickle pleased look On Adhelm valyaunt man, the virtues doomsday book. 420 ...
— The Rowley Poems • Thomas Chatterton
... fatal volume. I have heard of a thing they call Doomsday Book—I am clear it has been ...
— Redgauntlet • Sir Walter Scott
... In Doomsday Book, Hawarden appears as a Lordship, with a church, two ploughlands—half of one belonging to the church—half an acre of meadow, a wood two leagues long and half a league broad. The whole was valued at 40 shillings; yet ...
— The Hawarden Visitors' Hand-Book - Revised Edition, 1890 • William Henry Gladstone


Words linked to "Doomsday Book" :   Domesday Book, written record, written account


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