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单词 holiday resort
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holiday resort
C1. attributive or as adj. Of, belonging to, or used on, a holiday; befitting a holiday, festive, gay, sportive; superior to the ordinary workaday sort, as holiday centre, holiday clothes, holiday English, holiday job, holiday resort, holiday terms. Sometimes (esp. formerly of persons): suited only to a holiday; not engaged in, or not fitted for, serious action; dainty; idle, trifling.
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the world > action or operation > inaction > idleness, lack of occupation or activity > [adjective] > engaged in trifling activity
holidayc1450
wantonizing1599
peddling1613
poking1748
pottering1826
poky1828
piffling1848
puttering1855
footering1859
tiddlywinking1869
frivolling1882
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > holiday-making or tourism > [noun] > resort
holiday centrec1450
holiday resortc1450
summer resort1757
touring ground1858
vacation-land1927
getaway1968
c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 196 Þou þat hast getyn good be haly-day werkyng, haly-day chaffaryng, be false othys, be false dysceyȝtes.
c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 136 Comoun strumpettys, hasardourys, & such oþere, & halyday-werkerys.
1589 Pappe with Hatchet (1844) 20 Put on your night cap, and your holiday English.
1594 T. Lodge & R. Greene Looking Glasse sig. C4 She will call me Rascall, Rogue, Runnagate..and these be but holi-day tearmes.
a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) i. iii. 14 They are but burs..throwne vpon thee in holiday -foolerie. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) ii. ii. 29 Not a holiday-foole there but would giue a peece of siluer. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) ii. i. 2 What, haue scap'd Loue-letters in the holly-day-time of my beauty, and am I now a subiect for them? View more context for this quotation
1676 W. Wycherley Plain-dealer iii. i Prithee, don't look like one of our Holyday Captains now-a-days.
1695 Poor Robin's Alm. in Brand's Pop. Antiq. Great Brit. (1870) II. 353 A Holy-day Wife, all play and no work.
1701 J. Addison Switzerland in Wks. (1721) II. 173 Their holy-day cloaths go from Father to Son, and are seldom worn out.
1765 S. Foote Commissary ii. 36 Them holiday terms wou'd not pass in my shop.
1820 W. Tooke tr. Lucian Lucian of Samosata I. 558 Put on holiday-looks and pretend to be merry.
1836 R. W. Emerson Nature i. 14 Nature is not always tricked in holiday attire.
1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice I. ii. iii. 22 I must give you a holiday task to learn while I am away.
1854 M. M. Sherwood & S. Kelly Boys will be Boys ii. 31 That part of the country..within the nearer reach of a holiday ramble.
1866 ‘M. Twain’ Lett. from Hawaii (1967) 91 In Honolulu it is not a holiday job to ship a crew.
1900 Captain II. 375/1 When Mr. Soames asked the professor to come and be holiday tutor.
1900 Captain II. 375/1 Open to take a holiday tutorship.
1936 Discovery Sept. 263/1 A famous holiday-resort has been selected [as a meeting-place for the British Association].
1944 J. S. Huxley On Living in Revol. i. iii. 6 The elaborate system of rest-houses and holiday centres and the equally elaborate arrangements for holiday transport.
1966 Economist 17 Sept. 1143/2 Very soon now a vast new ‘holiday centre’ will open in Aviemore itself, containing both accommodation of all kinds and prices and entertainments of a similarly wide variety.
1969 Times 14 June 18/4 (advt.) Holiday job wanted..by 6th form girl.
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