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单词 gentleman caller
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gentleman caller
gentleman caller n. a male visitor; spec. a (potential) suitor or lover.Now chiefly humorous or self-consciously archaic.
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1851 Dollar Mag. Feb. 96/1 An appeal to the ladies not to offer any intoxicating drinks on New Year's day to their gentlemen callers.
1945 T. Williams Glass Menagerie i. i. 8 One Sunday afternoon in Blue Mountain—your mother received—seventeen!gentleman callers!
2017 Washington Post (Nexis) 16 Aug. (Style section) c1 Rachel begins..with stories about her own..online-dating travails. Her second gentleman caller had distractingly dirty fingernails.
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