单词 | gentleman caller |
释义 | > as lemmasgentleman caller gentleman caller n. a male visitor; spec. a (potential) suitor or lover.Now chiefly humorous or self-consciously archaic. ΚΠ 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. < as lemmas |
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