| 释义 |
mezzo-brow, n. and a. colloq. Now rare.
[f. It. mezzo middle + brow n.1]
= middle-brow (see middle a. 6).
1925N. Playfair Story Lyric Theatre i. 6, I am not a ‘high-brow’, but what I believe is now called in America a ‘mezzo-brow’, an Uncompromising Mezzo-brow! And if you imagine that to be a ‘mezzo-brow’ means that one has no positive opinions..I give you the lie. 1925Times Lit. Suppl. 12 Nov. 751/2 (heading) A mezzo-brow manager: the story of the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith. 1935Punch 19 June 734/2 He deplores..the red rash of rural villadom. But, resolutely mezzo-brow, he has a good word for Blackpool beach and the roadside Lido. 1940[see book n. 14]. 1945Mencken Amer. Lang. Suppl. I. 325 The search for a term to designate persons neither high-brows nor low-brows has led to the suggestion of mizzen-brow and mezzo-brow..but they have not caught on. |