/ · 1894 Brewer’s · S · Seven Dials (London)
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A column with seven dials formerly stood in St. Giles, facing the seven streets which radiated therefrom.
“Where famed St Giles’s ancient limits spread
An in-railed column rears its lofty head,
Here to seven streets seven dials count the day.
And from each other catch the circling ray.”
Gay: Trivia, i.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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