单词 | domestic slave |
释义 | > as lemmasdomestic slave domestic slave n. (a) a household slave, esp. as distinguished from a predial slave (see predial adj. 4); (b) = odalisque n. and adj.; (c) (see quot. 1799). ΚΠ 1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. ii. 40 In the free states of antiquity, the domestic slaves were exposed to the wanton rigour of despotism. 1798 Lady's Mag. June 265/1 No woman of Turkish birth can be an odalik, or domestic slave. 1799 M. Park Trav. Afr. (ed. 2) xxii. 287 The domestic slaves, or such as are born in a man's own house, are treated with more lenity than those which are purchased with money. 1970 Encycl. Brit. XX. 635/2 Manumission was..frequently granted for long and devoted services of a domestic slave, in particular to nurses who had looked after the master's children. < as lemmas |
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