| 单词 | cinderella dance |
| 释义 | > as lemmasCinderella dance Applied allusively to a cinder-woman, scullery-maid, etc.; also, a neglected or despised member, partner, or the like. Also attributive. Also, (more fully Cinderella dance) an early dancing party where the guests are invited until twelve o'clock only. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > obscurity or ingloriousness > [noun] > person Cinderella1840 unperson1949 society > leisure > dancing > ball or dance > [noun] > other balls or dances carolc1300 buttock-ball1698 redoubt1698 ridotto1708 race ball1770 county ball1771 dress ball?1772 promenade1778 waltz1802 hunt ball1807 dignity ball1834 ball-royala1843 polkery1845 jigging-party1872 prom1879 Cinderella dance1883 dinner dance1887 white ball1891 cotillion1898 taxi dance1910 Stampede Dance1950 go-go1965 1840 W. M. Thackeray in Fraser's Mag. July 101/2 I shall make one more trial..upon the third daughter, a family Cinderella. 1877 E. S. Dallas Kettner's Bk. of Table 425 Others..declare that it [sc. Shoulder of Mutton] is the Cinderella of meat—a beauty misunderstood and fit for princes. 1882 Society 14 Oct. 4/2 An excellent scheme of subscription ‘Cinderellas’. 1883 Standard 8 Jan. 5/2 The ‘Cinderella dance’ is much affected. 1896 Daily News 25 July 8/3 For many years the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire has been a cinderella among railways. 1914 Scotsman 14 Oct. 10/1 Their [sc. the Gaelic-speaking peoples' of Scotland] language did not deserve to be the Cinderella of all the languages of the British Empire. 1925 Morris Owner Jan. 1185 Essex has been the Cinderella of the Home Counties ever since the advent of the motor car. 1937 C. Boothe Women iii. i He says you've got a Cinderella Complex. He says most American women have. 1960 Times 3 Oct. 14/6 He..returned to college to study Chemistry, coal-tar dyeing, and similar Cinderella subjects. 1962 J. G. Bennett Witness xvi. 199 Research, from being the Cinderella of industry, would become its favoured child. 1969 Listener 28 Aug. 281/3 It was left to a Cinderella department, weakly and inadequately staffed and with a long record of bad judgment and failure behind it. < as lemmas |
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