| 单词 | man of pleasure |
| 释义 | > as lemmasman of pleasure man of pleasure n. a man who is devoted to the pursuit of sensual or sexual pleasure. woman of pleasure: a woman who is devoted to the pursuit of sensual or sexual pleasure; (also) a prostitute; = lady of pleasure n. at lady n. Phrases 3a. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > sensuality > [noun] > sensualist epicureana1450 fleshling1548 epicure?1551 carnalite1573 sensualist1604 akolast1606 voluptuarya1610 pleasure-monger1616 voluptary1616 carnalist1621 akolastic1623 woman of pleasure1623 pleasurista1682 luxurist1690 good liver1784 sensuist1840 liver1849 voluptuarian1879 1623 J. Webster Dutchesse of Malfy v. ii. sig. M We that are great women of pleasure..ioyne the sweete delight And the pretty excuse together. 1673 in O. Airy Essex Papers (1890) I. 72 These men of Pleasure (ye very Pest and ruine of all Courts). 1707 G. Farquhar Beaux Stratagem i. 3 Aim. A Sportsman, I suppose. Bon. Yes, Sir, he's a Man of Pleasure, he plays at Whisk, and smoaks his Pipe Eight and forty Hours together sometimes. 1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron I. ii. iii. 75 Thus in our Dialect a vicious Man is a Man of pleasure. 1747 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 27 Mar. (1932) (modernized text) III. 891 A man of pleasure, in the vulgar acceptation of that phrase, means only a beastly drunkard, an abandoned whore-master, and a profligate swearer. 1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure II. 138 No condition of life is more subject to revolutions than that of a woman of pleasure. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. v. 635 Kirke was also, in his own coarse and ferocious way, a man of pleasure. 1881 A. Trollope Ayala's Angel I. xvi. 202 I do not like to hear a young man called a lout because he's more like a man of business than a man of pleasure. 1910 Mansfield (Ohio) News 7 May 11/3 Miss Starr's portrayal of a weak woman of pleasure is fraught with a message of vital importance. 2002 UFO Mag. Jan. 37/1 A bit of a loner.., who stretched the rules by living off the air base much of the time with a Jo-san—a woman of pleasure. < as lemmas |
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