| 单词 | city woman |
| 释义 | > as lemmascity woman city woman n. a woman who is a native or inhabitant of a city, or who has urban tastes or manners. ΚΠ 1592 S. Daniel Complaynt of Rosamond in Delia sig. Kv The subtile Citty-women better learned, Esteeme them chast ynough that best seeme so. a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) ii. vii. 75 The City woman beares The cost of Princes on vnworthy shoulders. View more context for this quotation 1749 tr. D. Diderot Les Bijoux Indiscrets I. v. 29 Possibly we may find those of the city women more reasonable than those of duchesses. 1854 R. F. Greeley Violet ii. 217 The mother of Pryce was a city woman. 1948 Rotarian June 37/1 Both write with humour of the problems of the city woman trying to make a home in the country. 2002 N.Y. Times 3 Feb. ix. 8/1 Consider the cosmopolitan, the vodka and cranberry juice potion adopted by chic city women as a kind of emblem. < as lemmas |
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