| 单词 | comic valentine |
| 释义 | > as lemmascomic valentine comic valentine n. now historical a humorous valentine card; also figurative. ΚΠ 1846 Almanack of Month Mar. 150 For comic valentines there is still a demand, but the age of sentiment, like the age of chivalry, is gone. 1878 P. Scott Christianity & Personal Devil (ed. 2) vii. 140 ‘The devil's black, and so are you,’ is the termination of a comic valentine. 1921 C. J. Denton Entertainments for All Year 105 I didn't dare open it there, or on the street, because I just know it's a comic valentine. 1933 Z. Fitzgerald in M. Brucolli Zelda Fitzgerald Collected Writings (1991) 276 There was a small cranium, a large jaw, and two superhuman ears—a comic valentine of a man with a pig's head. 2000 G. Bolton Edmund Barton i. 11 George Reid, with whom he..exchanged comic valentines. < as lemmas |
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