英语词汇“custom-shrunk”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

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custom-shrunk

† custom-shrunk adj. Obsolete rare having fewer customers than previously.In both quots. referring to the madam of a brothel; in quot. 1885 probably influenced by quot. a1616.

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a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) i. ii. 82 What with the gallowes, and what with pouerty, I am Custom-shrunke .

1885 G. B. Shaw in D. H. Laurence & M. Peters Unpublished Shaw (1996) XVI. 103 Such chance of a legally secured maintenance in old age as a custom-shrunk procuress may now hope from a marriage with some provident pimp.

extracted from customn.adj.

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单词	custom-shrunk
释义	> as lemmas custom-shrunk † custom-shrunk adj. Obsolete rare having fewer customers than previously.In both quots. referring to the madam of a brothel; in quot. 1885 probably influenced by quot. a1616. ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) i. ii. 82 What with the gallowes, and what with pouerty, I am Custom-shrunke . View more context for this quotation 1885 G. B. Shaw in D. H. Laurence & M. Peters Unpublished Shaw (1996) XVI. 103 Such chance of a legally secured maintenance in old age as a custom-shrunk procuress may now hope from a marriage with some provident pimp. extracted from customn.adj. < as lemmas
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