Golgotha
nounUK /ˈɡɒlɡəθə/
Etymology * From the Ancient Greek Γολγοθᾶ (Golgothâ) from the Aramaic גּוּלְגּוּלְתָּא (gulgultā). * (rooms of the heads of the colleges; a hat): Punning on "the place of the skulls/heads".
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A charnel house.
- […] to the hat-rail; when Wigg went to put it on, it of course resisted, and giving it a spatch, off came the brim. In his fury at the destruction of his “Golgotha,” Wigg rushed to the counter, and seizing a fifty sovereign brass weight, hurled it […]1879, Thomas Southwell, Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society, page 271:
- […] and finally raised his hat and put it on again, cocked back on one side of his head in exact imitation of the manner in which the tall man carried his golgotha.1887, W. T. Eady, I.D.B. Or, The Adventures of Solomon Davis on the Diamond Fields and Elsewhere, page 165: