![]() In the evening, she “joined many of the villagers with flaming torches to walk to the top of Win Green to light the beacon as soon as the one from the Isle of Wight was seen.” Later that day, Adrienne saw Morris dancers for the first time as part of the village festivities. After that day, friends often came in for an evening to watch the Sunday play and ‘What's My Line?’” she continued. ![]() “Thirty-five friends in the village crowded into our living room to watch. However, “for the big day, mum bought a magnifier for the 12-inch television screen,” Adrienne said. Like many others, Adrienne’s memories include a newly bought television, which her mother purchased only a year prior, “much to the horror of her friends because of the ugly aerial on top of our house!” A huge beacon of firewood was built on Win Green in preparation for beacon lighting from one end of the country to the other, starting in the Isle of Wight,” she said. “We decorated our house with flags and paper coloured streamers. “But I was not out in the street for two minutes when I got made to go to the front and lead the parade because I was dressed as the Queen!” Once all dressed up, Yvonne’s family tried to convince her to join the parade of children out in the street: “There was a man and a bunch of children there who were waiting for me to join the parade, but I did not want to go. She sewed those into the crown,” Yvonne described. They were not valuable, but they must’ve been fashion jewellery of the day. “She even put my grandmother’s jewellery around the crown to resemble the crown stones. She wore a crown of the same red velvet material as her dress, which Yvonne's mother made using cotton wool around the headband and covered the top with wire and silver paper. All down the front I had fur – I don’t know whether she knitted it or what – and I had a big white lovely collar and a satin sash, just like the Queen wore.” To learn more, see the privacy policy.Yvonne treasures the photographs to this day that her mother took of her in her costume: “I had a white satin dress on and a red velvet cloak. Please note that Urban Thesaurus uses third party scripts (such as Google Analytics and advertisements) which use cookies. Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: and you might like to check out the growing collection of curated slang words for different topics over at Slangpedia. There is still lots of work to be done to get this slang thesaurus to give consistently good results, but I think it's at the stage where it could be useful to people, which is why I released it. Please also note that due to the nature of the internet (and especially UD), there will often be many terrible and offensive terms in the results. Or you might try boyfriend or girlfriend to get words that can mean either one of these (e.g. The search algorithm handles phrases and strings of words quite well, so for example if you want words that are related to lol and rofl you can type in lol rofl and it should give you a pile of related slang terms. The higher the terms are in the list, the more likely that they're relevant to the word or phrase that you searched for. Note that this thesaurus is not in any way affiliated with Urban Dictionary.ĭue to the way the algorithm works, the thesaurus gives you mostly related slang words, rather than exact synonyms. The official Urban Dictionary API is used to show the hover-definitions. These indexes are then used to find usage correlations between slang terms. ![]() The Urban Thesaurus was created by indexing millions of different slang terms which are defined on sites like Urban Dictionary.
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