Shambles
['ʃæmb(ə)lz]
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. pl. Flesh market.
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Definition
n.pl. stalls on which butchers exposed their meat for sale hence a flesh-market: a slaughter-house.
Typist: Morton
Examples
- Sab Than lay dead beside his father, and the corpses of the flower of Zodangan nobility and chivalry covered the floor of the bloody shambles. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- It was not wide enough either to carry all the transport for an offensive and the Austrians could make a shambles out of it. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- When it cleared again the place was a shambles. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
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