Peterhouse
Proper noun
Meaning
Peterhouse
(Cambridge University) Peterhouse, Cambridge.
Examples
According to college tradition, Thomas Gray left Peterhouse for Pembroke College after being the victim of a practical joke played by undergraduates.
Gray moved to Pembroke after the students at Peterhouse played a prank on him. citation Gray spent most of his life as a scholar in Cambridge, and only later in his life did he begin traveling again.
Peterhouse was the first college to be founded in the University of Cambridge.
The Peterhouse Partbooks, music manuscripts from the early years of the Chapel, survive, and are one of the most important collections of Tudor and Jacobean church music.
Chapel Interior of the Chapel Viewed from the main entrance to Peterhouse on Trumpington Street, the altar end of the Chapel is the most immediately visible building.
Peterhouse Annual Record 1999/2000 Grace Peterhouse and Jesus College are the only two colleges to have two separate halves to their grace, the first being a standard grace, and the second a quotation of 1 John 4:16.