| 释义 |
‖ cabotin|kabɔtɛ̃|
Fem. cabotine |-tin|.
[Fr., see next.]
A low-class actor. Also attrib. Hence cabotinism, the state or quality of being a cabotin; = next.
1903A. Bennett Truth about Author xv. 196 He is terrible against cabotins, no matter where he finds them. 1909H. James Tragic Muse I. p. xvii, The mountebank, the mummer and the cabotin. 1926R. Fry Transformations 120 The incalculable difference between Velasquez's distinction, detachment and scrupulous reserve as compared with Caravaggio's blustering Cabotinism. 1930J. Agate Red Letter Nights (1944) 129 There remain those impudences..which fell from Duse like sour benedictions, from Sarah with the cabotine's natural, slightly vulgar good nature. 1951L. P. Hartley My Fellow Devils i. 8 He was a cabotin sort of character, always playing a lonely part. Ibid. xxi. 218 ‘Cabotin’ character..seems to mean someone who enjoys playing..a rather second-rate part, who has no core of personality. 1966Punch 30 Nov. 826/2 Sarah Bernhardt was a cabotine; she excelled in the art of self-advertisement. |