used metonymically for "Church of England, Archbishop of Canterbury," 1859, from the archbishop's palace in Lambeth, a South London borough. The Lambeth Walk was a Cockney song and dance, popularized in Britain 1937 in the revue "Me and my Gal," named for a street in the borough. The place name is Old English lambehyee, "place where lambs are embarked or landed."
雙語例句
1. Opposite this grandeur, on the Surrey side, were the dingy warehouses and factories of Lambeth.