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单词 cabotinage
释义 cabotinage|kabɔtinaʒ|
[Fr., f. cabotin strolling player, perh. ultimately f. caboter to coast, because of the resemblance between players who travel from town to town and coasting vessels.]
The life or behaviour characteristic of low-class actors, with implication of ‘playing to the gallery’.
1894Nation (N.Y.) 22 Mar. 211 We can find the spirit of ‘cabotinage’..even in the Church.1895Daily News 9 May 6/2 Dickens, yielding..to his native cabotinage, descended so low as to give readings from his own books!Ibid., We cannot..blame the undeniable cabotinage of the great Napoleon.1921Times Lit. Suppl. 29 Sept. 626/2 In the narrow life of cabotinage there is little scope for originality.
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