| 单词 | gilded youth |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgilded youth gilded youth n. [after French jeunesse dorée jeunesse dorée n.] young people of wealth, privilege, or fashion considered as a group; = jeunesse dorée n.; also as a count noun; cf. gilt youth n. at gilt adj. Compounds 3. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > fashionable society > [noun] > member of > male > collectively gilded youth1763 chivalry1816 gilt youth1837 glitterati1956 beautiful people1967 1763 Satires on Times 31 Is the gilded Youth who shines at Balls, the Plain, with equal Spirit, form'd to tread? 1824 C. R. Maturin Albigenses I. x. 295 Thou lookest not among those gay and gilded youths like a roosted owl amid a cast of newly-bathed falcons with their bells and bravery on. 1882 F. W. Farrar Early Days Christianity I. 9 The old warlike spirit of the Romans was dead among the gilded youth of families in which [etc.]. 1918 B. Tarkington Magnificent Ambersons x. 143 In all the wild orgy of wastefulness and luxury with which the nineteenth century reaches its close, the gilded youth has been surely the worst symptom. 1961 Guardian 13 Sept. 8/3 Many a gilded youth..has been ‘taken to the cleaners’ once too often at midnight parties. 2005 R. Rankin Brightonomicon 180 We followed Cutler (the butler)..to lawns that lay beyond, lawns upon which gilded youth mingled with old money. < as lemmas |
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