| 单词 | barber's music |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbarber's music barber's music n. (a) informal music of a kind formerly made by customers in barber's shops, and characterized as being amateurish or dissonant (now historical and rare); (b) barbershop music (see barbershop n. 2) (rare).The practice of customers in barber's shops playing music to pass the time, often using instruments provided for the purpose by the barber, was common from the 16th to the 18th cent. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > [noun] > discordant music barber's music1660 noise music1946 1660 S. Pepys Diary 5 June (1970) I. 169 My Lord called for the Lieutenant's Gitterne, and with two Candlesticks with money in them for Symballs we made..barber's Musique. 1776 J. Hawkins Gen. Hist. Sci. & Pract. Music VI. ii. 17 In former time 't hath been upbrayded thus, That barber's musick was most barbarous. 1915 Colour Jan. 206/1 There was a crowd of us awaiting our turn for our Xmas and New Year's hair-trim..there was little to suggest the ancient traditional atmosphere. No barber's basin..no barber's music (horrid, of your own making on the shop instrument), not even a pole outside! 2002 Sunday Capital (Annapolis, Maryland) 26 May d5/3 The first American ‘barber's music’ was probably strummed and vocalized in the South. < as lemmas |
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