英语词汇“gentleman in brown”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

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gentleman in brown

†P14. gentleman in brown: any animal or insect that is brown in colour, esp. a bedbug or a mouse. Cf. the (little) gentleman in (black or brown) velvet at Phrases 9. Obsolete. rare.

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1885 G. A. Sala in Daily Tel. 14 Aug. 5/3 Bed bugs..are the disagreeable insects known in modern polite English as ‘Norfolk Howards’, or ‘gentlemen in brown’.

1899 Good Words 40 29/2 The little gentleman in brown on the further side [of the crack in the floor] is endowed with a very keen sense of smell.

extracted from gentlemann.

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单词	gentleman in brown
释义	> as lemmas gentleman in brown †P14. gentleman in brown: any animal or insect that is brown in colour, esp. a bedbug or a mouse. Cf. the (little) gentleman in (black or brown) velvet at Phrases 9. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1885 G. A. Sala in Daily Tel. 14 Aug. 5/3 Bed bugs..are the disagreeable insects known in modern polite English as ‘Norfolk Howards’, or ‘gentlemen in brown’. 1899 Good Words 40 29/2 The little gentleman in brown on the further side [of the crack in the floor] is endowed with a very keen sense of smell. extracted from gentlemann. < as lemmas
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