10 Matching Annotations
  1. May 2019
    1. forbearance

      "Patient self-control; restraint and tolerance" (OED).

    2. ill-breeding

      "Bad or inferior breeding or bringing up; hence, Bad manners, rudeness" (OED).

    3. learnt

      "To acquire knowledge" (OED).

    4. drawing-room

      "A room to withdraw to, a private chamber attached to a more public room (see withdrawing-room n.); now, a room reserved for the reception of company, and to which the ladies withdraw from the dining-room after dinner" (OED).

    5. thither

      "Also, 'hither,' to go to and fro; to move about in various directions" (OED).

    6. ladyship

      "The state or condition of being a lady; the rank, status, or authority of a lady" (OED).

    7. Hertfordshire

      "A county of south-eastern England, one of the Home Counties; county town, Hertford" (OED).

    8. Kent

      "A county of the south-eastern coast of England; county town, Maidstone" (OED). .jpg&action=MediaGallery)

    9. Rosings

      Fictional estate of Lady Catherine located in Kent, near Hunsford Parsonage.

      Image of the set of the 1995 BBC version of Pride & Prejudice.

    10. Parsonage

      "The church house provided for a rector...the house of any beneficed member of the clergy of the Church of England; the residence of any minister of religion" (OED).