单词 | match girl |
释义 | > as lemmasmatch girl match girl n. now historical a girl who sells matches. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of matches match-man1612 match-seller1754 match-boy1819 match girl1828 spunk-fencer1839 1828 W. T. Moncrieff Tom & Jerry ii. vi. 54 I'll relieve him, for I'll be after that match-girl directly. 1852 C. de Chatelain tr. H. C. Andersen Tales 301 The Little Match-Girl. 1981 T. C. Boyle Water Music (1983) ii. 253 As dawn stretches her rosy fingers over the rooftops of London, a harelipped match girl stumbles upon the writhing form of Claude M. Osprey. < as lemmas |
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