Limehouse

The place name is a reference to local lime oasts. The earliest reference is to Les Lymhostes, in 1356. The verb is a reference to a speech made there by the Chancellor of the Exchequer David Lloyd George in 1909.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈlʌɪmhaʊs/

Limehouse

1. A district in eastern London, now part of the borough of Tower Hamlets (OS grid ref TQ3681).

Limehouse (third-person singular simple present Limehouses, present participle Limehousing, simple past and past participle Limehoused)

1. (dated, British) To make a fiery political speech.

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “Limehouse”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.