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Example sentences for: billingsgate
How can you use “billingsgate” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
There is a conspicuous connection between billingsgate and my native place.
The language heard there at that time was just like that heard at Billingsgate .
In A Billingsgate in Kerala, by O. Abooty [XXII, 4], we read, ...Magnesia (a metal-bearing region in Greece)...
I find Mary Imber's comments on rhyming slang, O. Abootty's short essay on Kerala Billingsgate, and Charles Lewis' neat exposition of English permutations [XXI, 4] particularly entertaining and informative.
Thus Billingsgate became so notorious that in 1652 it became a common word in English.