英语词汇“gilt youth”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

gilt youth n. [after French jeunesse dorée jeunesse dorée n.] young people of wealth, privilege, or fashion considered as a group; also as a count noun; now superseded by gilded youth n. at gilded adj. Compounds.First applied to the group of fashionable counter-revolutionaries formed in France after the fall of Robespierre.

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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

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. vii. ii. 409 Young men of what they call the Muscadin or Dandy species! Fréron, in his fondness, names them Jeunesse dorée, Golden, or Gilt Youth. They have come out, these Gilt Youths, in a kind of resuscitated state.

1863 London Society Nov. 395/1 The racing-men of France—the ‘gilt youth’ of Paris, the desperate enthusiasts of ‘Le Sport’.

1907 Outing Mag. Mar. 689/2 The bald-heads, and gilt youth, and divor-says of Saint Loois and Cincinatter.

1916 W. Owen Let. 8 May (1967) 393 One gilt youth with £2000 a year of his own.

1993 S. Stacey & M. Storey Bone Idle v. 36 Charity, my slim gilt youth, charity, I do it for charity.

单词	gilt youth
释义	> as lemmas gilt youth gilt youth n. [after French jeunesse dorée jeunesse dorée n.] young people of wealth, privilege, or fashion considered as a group; also as a count noun; now superseded by gilded youth n. at gilded adj. Compounds.First applied to the group of fashionable counter-revolutionaries formed in France after the fall of Robespierre. 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 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. vii. ii. 409 Young men of what they call the Muscadin or Dandy species! Fréron, in his fondness, names them Jeunesse dorée, Golden, or Gilt Youth. They have come out, these Gilt Youths, in a kind of resuscitated state. 1863 London Society Nov. 395/1 The racing-men of France—the ‘gilt youth’ of Paris, the desperate enthusiasts of ‘Le Sport’. 1907 Outing Mag. Mar. 689/2 The bald-heads, and gilt youth, and divor-says of Saint Loois and Cincinatter. 1916 W. Owen Let. 8 May (1967) 393 One gilt youth with £2000 a year of his own. 1993 S. Stacey & M. Storey Bone Idle v. 36 Charity, my slim gilt youth, charity, I do it for charity. extracted from giltadj. < as lemmas
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