英语词汇“dining-room post”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

†C2. cant. In the names of methods of stealing from houses, as in dining-room jump, dining-room post. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1781 G. Parker View Society & Manners II. 139 Dining-room-post is a mode of stealing by a man, who, pretending to be the Postman, goes to lodging-houses under the pretence of having letters for the lodgers. These sham letters being sent up for the postage, which he seems to wait for, as soon as he is left alone, he goes into the first room which he finds open, and whips off with him whatever he can lay hold of.

1781 G. Parker View Society & Manners II. 139 Dining-Room Jump. This is executed by four men, one of whom dressed as a Gentleman pretends to want lodgings.

单词	dining-room post
释义	> as lemmas dining-room post †C2. cant. In the names of methods of stealing from houses, as in dining-room jump, dining-room post. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1781 G. Parker View Society & Manners II. 139 Dining-room-post is a mode of stealing by a man, who, pretending to be the Postman, goes to lodging-houses under the pretence of having letters for the lodgers. These sham letters being sent up for the postage, which he seems to wait for, as soon as he is left alone, he goes into the first room which he finds open, and whips off with him whatever he can lay hold of. 1781 G. Parker View Society & Manners II. 139 Dining-Room Jump. This is executed by four men, one of whom dressed as a Gentleman pretends to want lodgings. extracted from dining roomn. < as lemmas
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