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Under the Linden Tree
In the ebook by Elizabeth von Arnim I'm working on there is the passage:
Charlotte, not content with lecturing, wrote pamphlets, -- lofty documents of a deadly earnestness, in German and English, and they might be seen any day in the bookshop windows Unter den Linden. Charlotte's family nearly fainted when it had to walk Unter den Linden. Even I know the literal meaning, but is there a colloquial meaning for Unter den Linden? Or was there in 1904? Downtown? Amongst the lower classes? |
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Unter den Linden = Under the linden trees
It's the name of the most famous and most beautiful boulevard in Berlin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unter_den_Linden |
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No double or colloquial meaning there, just the location. - The thought behind that appears to be that the family did not identify with Charlottes "pamphlets" and as strolling down Unter den Linden was also showing ones social status (see and be seen) finding those works being advertised in public fell back on the family of the author as a group. They feared the gossip that was to follow ...
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