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Lolita|ləˈliːtə|
The name of a novel (1958) and its main character by Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) about a precocious schoolgirl seduced by a middle-aged man, used to designate people and situations resembling those in the book. Also attrib. and Comb.
1959Encounter Feb. 31/2 The melodrama turns this country of common routines into Lolitaland. 1960B. Fretchman tr. S. de Beauvoir (title) Brigitte Bardot and the Lolita syndrome. 1960Spectator 25 Nov. 843 A nymphomaniac launched into her life's work by a Lolitaish experience with the man who wanted to marry her mother. 1964C. Dale Other People v. 113 He drew back... This was June from next door, a sweet kid but a schoolgirl... Christ, he wasn't a Lolita type! 1967H. Hunter Case for Punishment viii. 134 Jack Carter's our first assistant and he's absolutely head over heels in love with Jinnie Turner of the sixth form. A real Lolita affair. 1972Guardian 25 Jan. 9/2 Louis Feraud..includes a group of dresses called schoolgirl frocks... Lolita lives again and one longs for the innocence of St Trinian's. 1975Listener 6 Mar. 305/1 Chaplin had an uncontrollable infatuation with young girls... But his Lolita-like relationships in real life rarely matched the spiritual purity of love-on-the-screen. |