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单词 album piece
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album piece
a. With the sense ‘suitable for inclusion in an album (in sense 1a)’, as album piece, album sketch, album verse, etc. Frequently depreciative, used to suggest that such pieces are of inferior quality, or are unworthy of serious consideration.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > bad poem or doggerel poem > [adjective]
doggerelc1405
album1828
verselessc1873–4
stuffed owl1941
stuffed-owlish1960
1828 Kaleidoscope 11 Nov. 160/3 Album Poetry. We presume that the writer of the lines accompanying the drawing of a Miser, must be of the Cockney school. How else are we to account for Miser and Elizer being introduced as allowable rhymes?
1850 D. G. Mitchell Lorgnette II. ix. 203 A town-artist..who, between album sketches..was doing an execution with his moonlight poetry.
1864 C. E. Turner Our Great Writers I. iii. 37 Those pedantic improvements..which, by robbing Chaucer of his simplicity, convert his poetry into the polished jargon of modern album-verse.
1881 Cent. Mag. Dec. 268/2 Quite a volume of first-rate album-verse has been left in the visitors' books.
1918 V. Woolf Writer's Diary 7 Aug. (1953) 3 I'm much impressed by the extreme badness of B[yron]'s poetry... Why did they think this album stuff the finest fire of poetry?
1967 V. Smith At Exhib. of Hist. Paintings, Hobart in Island South 4 Album pieces: bowls of brown glazed fruit.
1996 G. Hammarberg in H. Goscilo & B. Holmgren Russia—Women—Culture iv. xii. 313 More aggressive flatterers..advised potential competitors how to write album verse, or discouraged them from writing altogether.
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