| 单词 | dundreary weepers |
| 释义 | > as lemmasDundreary (or Piccadilly) weepers 4. Usually plural. Long flowing side-whiskers as worn by ‘Lord Dundreary’ (E. A. Sothern) in the play ‘Our American Cousin’. So Dundreary (or Piccadilly) weepers. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > styles of hair > [noun] > styles of whiskers side wing1811 mutton chop1851 Dundreary whiskers1859 mutton cutlet1860 Piccadilly weeper1866 burnside1875 Dundrearies1876 sideburn1876 sidebar whiskers1882 sideboards1883 weeper1894 slugger1898 ear guards1905 1894 G. Du Maurier Trilby (1912) i. 4 He wore an immense pair of drooping auburn whiskers, of the kind that used to be called Piccadilly weepers. 1903 Athenæum 13 June 760/3 A mid-Victorian Englishman with ‘Dundreary weepers’. 1908 Sat. Rev. 20 June 775/2 Sir James Day was..adorned with the ‘weeper’—a form of whisker..at one time a popular forensic compromise between the bare face and the full beard. < as lemmas |
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