单词 | drawing-room comedy |
释义 | > as lemmasdrawing-room comedy C3. As a modifier, designating a type of comic drama associated with the late Victorian period, typically set in a drawing room and depicting the manners, habits, or affectations of polite society, esp. in drawing-room comedy; cf. comedy of manners n. at comedy n.1 Phrases. ΚΠ 1885 A. Edwardes Girton Girl II. ii. 22 An actor in a similar bit of drawing-room comedy. 1900 G. B. Shaw Prefaces (1934) xxix. 709/2 Love is the one subject that the drawing room drama dare not present. 1959 J. Braine Vodi xv. 200 The neatly-folded scarf gave him a drawing-room comedy smartness. 2014 New Yorker 10 Nov. 87/3 He tries to turn ‘The Real Thing’ into a drawing-room comedy. < as lemmas |
随便看 |
|
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。