单词 | half-crowner |
释义 | > as lemmashalf-crowner half-crowner n. a person who pays a half-crown for a seat at a performance, etc.; a publication costing a half-crown. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > theatre-going > theatregoer > [noun] > theatre audience > occupants of specific seat or place scaffolder1597 nutcracker1602 groundling1604 understander1633 pit-mask1701 goddess1799 pittite1807 stall-holder1849 half-crowner1886 stallite1887 1886 H. Baumann Londinismen 71/2 Half-crowner. 1893 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang III. 250/1 Half-crowner, a publication costing 2s. 6d. 1937 G. B. Shaw London Music 1888–89 288 The half-crowners energetically cried ‘Hear, hear’. 1959 New Statesman 25 July 106/2 One can watch the half-crowners filing..before the country-house displays of things properly designed and well made. < as lemmas |
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