| 单词 | gaiety girl |
| 释义 | > as lemmasGaiety girl Gaiety girl n. [after the name of the Gaiety Theatre, a former London theatre (opened under that name in 1868) famous, especially from the 1890s, for its musical comedies; compare also the title of the popular musical comedy ( A Gaiety Girl) of 1893] any of the Gaiety Theatre's celebrated chorus girls; also in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > variety, etc. > performers in variety, etc. > [noun] > chorus-girl monkey1871 follies1874 Gaiety girl1886 chorus-girl1894 pony1908 chorine1922 Ziegfeld girl1932 les girls1936 terp1937 1886 County Gentleman 27 Mar. 391/3 A Gaiety girl has set afoot a most sensible scheme for the comfort of actresses of the poorest sort. 1898 People 27 Feb. One of the brightest and most graceful of ‘Gaiety’ girls. 1910 G. K. Chesterton George Bernard Shaw 143 Shaw..introduced the Gaiety Girl, but did not represent her life as all gaiety. 1946 ‘C. Brahms’ & ‘S. J. Simon’ Trottie True ii. 20 There was nothing she could do to stop the man nipping off to a stage door and taking a Gaiety Girl out to supper. 1965 ‘C. Fremlin’ Jealous One xx. 156 This gaiety-girl business is all fairly new. It's not natural to her. She's one of Nature's frumps, really. 1970 Guardian 19 Dec. 6/2 There were Gaiety Girls on garlanded swings. 2006 Daily Mail (Nexis) 11 Feb. 21 Their lavish summer parties attended by politicians, businessmen, Gaiety girls, theatrical stars and the nouveau riche created Belgravia in the Hebrides before ending with the onset of the First World War. < as lemmas |
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