| 释义 |
ˈtown-made, a.
Made or manufactured in a town; spec. in the town of the district. Also as n.
1809Edin. Rev. XIII. 253 This is the very slang of..the lowest of our town-made novels. 1837Dickens Sk. Boz, Dancing Acad., [He] bought a pair of the regular seven-and-sixpenny, long-quartered town-mades. 1840Hood Kilmansegg, Marriage xxv, Town-made joys how dearly they cost. 1853Perkins Haberdashery (ed. 8) 90 Kid is valuable in proportion to its elasticity. When this quality is united with closeness of texture, the gloves called ‘Town made’ are so superior to most others of our own manufacture, as to rival the French. 1861Wynter Soc. Bees 163 Adulteration to which all town-made bread is obnoxious. |