grimthorpe

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  1. To treat in the manner of Lord Grimthorpe, that is, to ‘restore’ (an old piece of architecture) with the effect of spoiling it, as Lord Grimthorpe is said to have done when he undertook to restore the west front of St. Albans Abbey in England. Why should any one who finds it stated that a book has been bowdlerized or grangerized, that a man has been boycotted, that a church has been grimthorped, or that a writer shows a Zolaizing tendency, be denied the explanation of these words because they have been formed from personal names? J. Randall, in N. and Q., March 18, 1893.

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