英语词汇newgate calendar的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	newgate calendar
词源	Newgate Calendar. Often used today as a synonym for a who’s who of crime and notorious criminals everywhere, the Newgate Calendar was begun in 1773 as a biographical record of the most notorious criminals confined at England’s famed Newgate Prison. Newgate Calendar was long the pseudonym for the reviewer or reviewers of crime books for the New York Times Book Review.
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