单词 | cocoa quaker |
释义 | > as lemmasCocoa Quaker Cocoa Quaker n. British (now historical) (a name for) any of the several Quaker owners of major cocoa or chocolate companies in the 19th and 20th cent.; (also) a person having political views characteristic of these people, a Liberal. ΚΠ 1912 National Rev. Mar. 69 The British people is not going back upon its past..to gratify the Coco Quaker. 1984 S. Koss Rise & Fall Polit. Press in Brit. II. ii. 77 Leaving the employment of one Cocoa Quaker for that of another, Massingham did not imagine that the Daily News would have difficulty replacing him as lobby correspondent. 1996 A. Meltzer I couldn't paint Golden Angels 314 The traditionally Liberal philanthropist cocoa Quakers who ran the News Chronicle had been the first to object to following custom and practice. < as lemmas |
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