单词 | lazzarone |
释义 | lazzaronen. One of the lowest class at Naples, who lounge about the streets, living by odd jobs, or by begging. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > other people of low rank or condition > [noun] > street people > street loafer or ruffian beater1483 lazzaro1650 Mun1691 Hawcubite1712 blackguard1732 lazzarone1792 1792 C. Smith Desmond II. 121 What wretched and dangerous doctrine to disseminate among the lazzaroni of England. [Note] Lazzaroni, a word descriptive of people reduced to the utmost poverty and wretchedness. 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 439 [Naples.] About 30000 lazaroni, or black guards. 1797 A. Radcliffe Italian I. ix. 274 A few fishermen and lazzaroni only were loitering along the strand. 1832 G. Downes Lett. from Continental Countries I. 454 The Italian vetturini, a kind of peregrinating lazzaroni, never let slip any opportunity of paying homage to the goddess Vacuna. 1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede II. ii. xvii. 8 Neither are picturesque lazzaroni or romantic criminals half so frequent as your common labourer. 1878 H. M. Stanley Through Dark Continent II. iii. 74 The most ragged British beggar or Neapolitan lazzarone. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1792 |
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