| 单词 | modern dress |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmodern dress modern dress n. contemporary clothing; spec. costumes for a theatrical production in a style from the period of performance rather than that of a play's setting or time of writing. ΚΠ 1688 W. Canning Gesta Grayorum Ep. Ded. The Language it self is all that Age could afford; which, allowing something for the Modern Dress and Words in Fashion, is not beneath any we have now. 1706 D. Defoe Caledonia i. 20 And when the Characters we shall compare, A Northern Highland-man's a Christian there. Polite his Manners, and his Modern Dress, Is Beauty all, when match't with Ugliness. 1854 Chambers's Jrnl. 1 124 She looked like a Greek statue that had come alive, and by mere contact classicised its modern dress. 1899 Times 29 Nov. 6/2 Aynsworth and Sneer as Dangle and Kerr appeared in modern dress, which was somewhat unusual. 1979 Whig-Standard (Kingston, Ont.) 31 Mar. 6/2 It is mainly for this reason that Ayatollah Khumaini has called upon Iranian women to trade their modern dress for the Burka. 2001 Guardian 22 Oct. i. 16/1 One of the most appealing qualities of Rennie Harris's hip-hop version of Romeo and Juliet is that it has none of the self-conscious hipness of Shakespeare performed in modern dress. < as lemmas |
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