单词 | english rose |
释义 | > as lemmasEnglish rose English rose n. an attractive typically light-complexioned English girl. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > [noun] > beautiful thing or person > beautiful person > beautiful woman > other types of beautiful woman English rose1780 breeches-figure1808 postcard beauty1912 bathing beauty1920 bathing belle1924 1780 F. Pilon Siege Gibraltar ii. ii. 27 What's the matter, my little English Rose? 1838 Times 10 Sept. 1/4 Our bonny English rose. 1855 H. Ainslie Sc. Songs, Ballads, & Poems 194 It was not well, sweet Rosabell, It was not well for thee, When the English rose for a heart-mate chose A flower of the forest free. 1902 B. Hood Merrie Eng. ii. 211 Dan Cupid hath a garden Where women are the flow'rs... And Oh! the sweetest blossom That in the garden grows,—The fairest Queen, it is, I ween, The perfect English rose. 1918 ‘D. Lyall’ Eng. Rose xx. 275 The two girls kissed one another, and the English rose was received in that happy corner of Ireland's garden and found it good. 1967 D. Cilento Manipulator i. 13 Rose had..won a seven-year contract with a film company on the strength of her English rose good looks. 1968 H. R. F. Keating Inspector Ghote hunts Peacock v. 67 She was the ideal English Rose..her hair was crisply golden... Her complexion was a vigorous pink and white. 2005 K. Harrison Starter Marriage 262 She gives her hair one quick comb through and she's transformed, from glowing round-the-world yacht babe, into coiffed English rose. < as lemmas |
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