单词 | esclandre |
释义 | esclandren. Unpleasant notoriety; an occurrence which gives rise to it; a disturbance, scene. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > infamy or notoriety > [noun] > a scandal or infamous event or state of things mislander1531 scandal1613 scanmag1781 stink1819 affair1823 esclandre1832 scandalum magnatum1850 1832 C. C. F. Greville Mem. 1 June (1874) II. xviii. 306 Threatening to make an esclandre and leave the château. 1854 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes I. xxx. 299 The scene which you witnessed yesterday, my good young friend, and all that painful esclandre on the promenade. 1857 C. Kingsley Two Years Ago II. xi. 11 Scoutbush, to avoid ésclandre and misery..paid her her dividends as usual. 1881 M. E. Herbert Edith 18 Since the last ‘esclandre’ he had held little or no communication with her. 1882 J. C. Morison Macaulay 55 An esclandre of any kind, cannot be associated even in imagination with his name. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < |
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