单词 | half-class |
释义 | > as lemmashalf-class half-class n. rare a social class of people regarded as belonging neither to a prestigious class nor to a lower one. Π 1845 A. M. Hall Whiteboy I. ix. 149 There was nothing..to distinguish Lawrence Macarthy from the half class—neither gentleman nor farmer. 1934 W. Lewis in Time & Tide 13 Oct. 1253/1 The sample room of the present modernist furniture designer has so little to do with work, or the disorder of living..that it seems to fall between two stools... Much of it seems designed for a sort of bastard half-class of half-proletarianized nobodies. 1975 Jrnl. Mod. Hist. 47 422 This classless class or half-class of quasi workers and quasi bourgeois. half-class half-class n. a class that is half one and half another. ΚΠ 1845 A. M. Hall Whiteboy ix. 76 There was nothing..to distinguish L.M. from the half class—neither gentleman nor farmer. < as lemmas |
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