| 单词 | free-and-easy club |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfree-and-easy club free-and-easy club n. now historical an informal singing club; (also) any club for socializing, drinking, etc. (frequently with the implication of dissoluteness). ΚΠ ?1769 Dunniad 69 (heading) Song... Dedicated to the Members of the Free and Easy Club established at Pontefract. 1796 Moral & Polit. Mag. London Corresponding Soc. Nov. 264 Many people who attend public dinners, free and easy clubs, and other societies, wherein singing is introduced as a relaxation from serious business. 1818 Times 10 Apr. 3/4 On the Saturday night of the murder, he was at a free and easy club. 1894 J. D. Hunting tr. F. Rocquain Revolutionary Spirit preceding French Revol. x. 139 Divested of all decorum and reserve, the Court of Louis XVI...greatly resembled a ‘free and easy’ club, or a gambling ‘hell’. 1973 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 34 140 After 1807, his [sc. Thomas Spence's] followers met weekly to discuss and propagate his ideas in a ‘Free and Easy Club’. < as lemmas |
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