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Deadly Never-Green

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Etymology

A play on the conceit that the Tyburn tree (the gallows at Tyburn) was a real tree—a lethal one, devoid of greenery.

Definitions

  1. Synonym of Tyburn tree.

    • 64. A view of the The Road to Paddington,^([i.e., Edgware Road]) with a Representation of the Deadly Never Green that bears Fruit all the year round. This is Tyburn, with three felons hanging on it.
    • He was too young, of course, to remember Tyburn, although his father might have told him tales of the Deadly Never-Green or Three-legged Mare.

  2. Alternative form of Deadly Never-Green.

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