单词 | mot dordre |
释义 | mot d'ordren. A political slogan or watchword; an expression of policy; an oral directive or plan. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > [noun] > a political slogan or expression cry1799 mot d'ordre1855 society > authority > command > command or bidding > [noun] > injunction or instruction > an injunction or instruction charge138. advisementa1387 instruction1410 jointc1475 injunction1526 special order1547 direction1576 encharge1595 direct1615 directing1632 directive1642 game law1820 mot d'ordre1905 1855 Newspaper & Gen. Reader's Compan. i. §159 ‘A mot d'ordre was given by the Legitimist leaders of the fusion’; that is to say, A watchword, &c. 1878 L. W. M. Lockhart Mine is Thine I. vii. 144 Another kind of success was to be procured by occasional fits of recalcitrancy against the mots d'ordre of the party. 1884 E. W. Hamilton Diary 18 Nov. (1972) II. 735 The Tory Party held their meeting at the Carlton this morning; and Pax was the mot d'ordre. 1905 Baroness Orczy Scarlet Pimpernel xii. 119 Evidently expecting to meet their chief—and perhaps to get a fresh mot d'ordre from him. 1930 Observer 13 Apr. 17/5 The official mot d'ordre is that Mr. Gandhi's salt campaign must be treated with a sense of humour. 1993 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 2 Dec. 53/1 They had received no mot d'ordre from their leader. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1855 |
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