| 单词 | glycerine tear |
| 释义 | > as lemmasglycerine tear glycerine tear n. a drop of glycerine used in theatrical make-up to simulate a tear (tear n.1). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > theatrical equipment or accessories > [noun] > make-up > types of blackface1847 crape hair1866 spirit gum1871 brownface1913 wet-white1922 glycerine tear1934 white-face1947 nose putty1950 nose paste1951 redface1954 yellowface1959 1926 G. H. Maines & B. Grant Wise-crack Dict. 7/1 Cork the glycerine, stop the movie tears.] 1934 C. Lambert Music Ho! iv. 270 Even synthetic sentiment, the musical equivalent of glycerine tears, is harder to achieve than abstraction. 1969 Listener 13 Nov. 669/1 In a scene where Genevieve Page is producing the required tears with frightening realism, Wilder instructs the make-up man to add to them. ‘Glycerine tears..great big Hollywood false tears...’ < as lemmas |
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