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verb
To renovate an old building or structure in a lavish and expensive, yet tasteless fashion which spoils its original beauty.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated, transitive
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verb
Alternative letter-case form of grimthorpe.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of
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History
In reference to the renovation of the St Albans Cathedral in the 19th century by Edmund Beckett, 1st Baron Grimthorpe, which was fiercely criticized at the time.
