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domesday

(ˈduːmzˌdeɪ)
n
a variant spelling of doomsday
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dooms•day

(ˈdumzˌdeɪ)

n.
the day of the Last Judgment.
[before 1000; Middle English domes dai, Old English dōmesdæg Judgment Day. See doom, day]
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Next morning, 'Chop off her head.' And he made every one of them tell him a tale every night; and he kept that up till he had hogged a thousand and one tales that way, and then he put them all in a book, and called it Domesday Book -- which was a good name and stated the case.
there are some folk who have no fear of Domesday in them, and no sign of grace in their souls, for ever clutching and clawing at another man's chattels."
"If you both stop here till domesday," said Geoffrey, "you'll get nothing more out of me.
Domesday It was first mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086, has a population of around 140 and was designated as a conservation area back in 1993.
In 1086 the Domesday Book mentioned the land in the village was worth ten shillings because a plough was being used there, so the area was not listed as 'waste'.
The estate at Gwysaney Hall is recorded in the Domesday Book and had links to 9th-century Welsh king Rhodri Mawr.
And picturesque Wolverton, close to Stratford-upon-Avon, is mentioned in the Domesday Book.
This Grade II listed property, which is on Duck Lane in Ludgershall near Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, is believed to be the last original hovel in the UK and is mentioned indirectly within the Domesday Book.
Domesday on show BRITAIN'S earliest and most famous surviving public record is to go on exhibition.
Domesday, a near 1,000-yearold manuscript commissioned by William the Conqueror after the 1066 Norman Invasion, will be loaned to the British Library by the National Archives later this year.
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