hastings : Idioms & Phrases


battle of hastings

  • noun the decisive battle in which William the Conqueror (duke of Normandy) defeated the Saxons under Harold II (1066) and thus left England open for the Norman Conquest
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hastings sands

Has"tings sands"
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  1. (Geol.) The lower group of the Wealden formation; -- so called from its development around Hastings, in Sussex, England.
Webster 1913

thomas hastings

  • noun United States architect who formed and important architectural firm with John Merven Carrere (1860-1929)
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