| 词汇 | gregorian tree |
| 词源 | Gregorian tree. The English so valued one hangman, Gregory Brandon, that they granted him a coat of arms for his grue- somely efficient work on the scaffold. Gregory, whose son suc- ceeded him as public executioner and beheaded Charles I in 1649, lived to see his name become a synonym for the gallows in the form of Gregorian tree. |
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