| 单词 | carriage folk |
| 释义 | > as lemmascarriage folk c. Designating people who ride in their own private carriages and are (by implication) wealthy or of high social status, as in carriage folk, carriage lady. See also carriage company n. at Compounds 4, carriage trade n. 2. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > aristocracy or upper class > gentry > [noun] > gentlefolk gentlesc1405 gentlefolka1556 genteels1652 gentle-people1755 carriage company1812 carriage1819 gentilities1833 1819 C. Brown Let. 24 Jan. in Lett. J. Keats (1931) II. 302 The whole of the family are shuffling to carriage folks for acquaintances, cutting their old friends. 1832 Morning Post 30 Mar. The Defendant..said he kept a ‘muffin shop,’ adding (with an air of consequence), that he had even carriage Ladies to deal with him. 1885 R. Lynn City Sparrows iii. 31 He turned with an obsequious bow to some grand carriage folk in ‘goodly apparel’ who were just entering. 1910 ‘R. Dehan’ One Braver Thing lxii. 537 Him! Wiv a beautiful 'ouse to live in–an' Carriage Toffs with Titles fair beggin' 'im to come an' feel their pulses an' be pyde for it. 1938 Essex Chron. 12 Aug. 7/4 The ‘carriage’ ladies and gentlemen who broke their journeys at the pleasant country inns and hotels, and whose boots and shoes had to be polished until they shone like mirrors. 2001 F. M. L. Thompson Gentrification & Enterprise Culture (2003) iv. 75 Carriage folk were generally thought of as being the idle rich and not notably entrepreneurial. < as lemmas |
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