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单词 governess-tongue
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governess-tongue
governess-tongue n. Obsolete language as taught by a governess; standard speech, lacking any distinctive characteristics.Apparently an isolated use.
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1892 T. Hardy Pursuit Well-beloved iii. in Illustr. London News 22 Oct. 426 He observed that every aim of those who had brought her up had been to teach her to forget all the experiences of her ancestors; to drown the local ballads by songs purchased at the Budmouth fashionable music sellers', and the local vocabulary by a governess-tongue of no country at all.
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