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Dunstable (iou)



Dunstable adjective & noun. M16.
[A town in Bedfordshire, England.]
A. adjective.
Connected with or made in Dunstable. M16.
Dunstable way arch. the road from London to Dunstable (part of the Roman Watling Street), regarded as the type of a direct route or straightforward course.
b. spec. Designating a kind of straw plait, or the method of plaiting it. obsolete exc. Hist. L18.
[from Dunstable way below.] Direct, straightforward, downright. arch. L16.
b. noun. plain Dunstable, downright Dunstable, something direct or simple, esp. plain language, the simple facts. arch. L16.
V. Woolf The plain Dunstable of the matter is, I'm not in the mood..to-night.