| 单词 | lady reader |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslady reader (b) Prefixed to designations of persons or employment, esp. those traditionally applied to men, to indicate that the person referred to is a woman, as lady actor, lady critic, lady doctor, lady farmer, lady novelist, lady president, lady reader, lady tyrant, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > healer > physician > [noun] > female woman physician1533 doctress1577 doctrix1604 doctoress1641 physicianess1662 lady doctor1684 society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > novel > [noun] > novelist novelist1633 lady novelist1684 novel-writer1728 novel-wright1779 fictionist1829 novel-puffer1841 noveller1859 novel-spinner1862 novel-maker1863 1684 T. Otway Atheist ii. 12 The Lady-Tyrant of your Enchanted Castle. a1687 E. Waller Wks. (1729) 222 Prologue for the Lady-Actors. 1694 W. Congreve Double-dealer Epil. 80 The Lady Criticks, who are better Read, Enquire if Characters are nicely bred. 1775 F. Burney Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1990) II. 176 She has a fine voice... How many voices would you silence at this rate! & how few lady singers would you leave. 1784 R. Bage Barham Downs I. 9 Instead of hunting for..a wealthy widow, or a rich lady citizen, he retired to his country seat. 1826 M. R. Mitford Our Village II. 197 A good sort of lady-farmer. 1827 G. Darley Sylvia 110 Or any lady-page that soothes A steed whose neck she hardly smoothes. 1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxix. 315 If our observant lady readers can deduce any satisfactory inferences from these facts, we beg them by all means to do so. 1848 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 186 Miss Martineau is lady-president of the gossip school. 1858 English Woman's Jrnl. 1 90 As she went through the streets,..rude cries of ‘Come on, Bill! let's have a good look at the lady-doctor!’ would meet her ears. 1861 G. H. Kingsley in F. Galton Vacation Tourists & Trav. 1860 137 These hinds..are the lady-superintendents of an educational institution for young stags. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 333 The first lady-guest ever seen at Rainbar. 1894 Daily News 28 Mar. 3/2 To the lady clerks is allotted half the ledger keeping. 1913 I. Gurney Let. 31 Aug. (1991) 8 I have actually condescended to read a lady-novelist. 1961 Listener 30 Mar. 574/3 If ‘women novelists’ are to become ‘lady novelists’ as a matter of course, I give notice..that in future, when reviewing the novels of male writers of fiction, I shall make a point of referring to these writers as ‘gentlemen novelists’. 1975 ‘C. Aird’ Slight Mourning vi. 58 The lady doctor had arrived. 2003 Evening Herald (Plymouth) (Nexis) 24 Nov. 8 Lady brain surgeons are indeed rare and their contributions to neurosurgery are to be welcomed. < as lemmas |
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