| 单词 | long song |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslong song long song n. now historical a long sheet of paper on which are printed a number of popular songs; frequently attributive. ΚΠ 1849 Bell's Life in London 9 Dec. 3/2 The ‘Flying Stationers’ are divisible into four classes—the running and the standing patterers, the long-song sellers, the song-book dealers, and the ballad singers. 1856 Chambers's Jrnl. 28 June 402/1 An item in those streaming fathoms of verse technically known as ‘long songs’, in which as many as a hundred favourite ditties are sold for a penny. 1957 R. Hoggart Use of Literacy (1961) 292 These are perhaps the modern counterparts of the Victorian ‘long-songs’—‘Three yards a penny’. 2001 Times Lit. Suppl. 27 Apr. 19/2 Prominent among the exhibits in this fascinating gallimaufry is a group of ‘long-song ballads’, strips of paper a yard long by five inches broad, printed with popular songs. < as lemmas |
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