| 单词 | opera-girl |
| 释义 | > as lemmasopera-girl opera-girl n. (a) archaic a girl or woman who dances in the ballet of an opera; †(b) (in plural opera-girls) a greenhouse plant, Mantisia saltatoria (family Zingiberaceae) (obsolete); cf. dancing-girl n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > foliage, house, or garden plants > [noun] > dancing-girls dancing-girls1866 opera-girl1866 1744 H. Walpole Let. 22 July (1903) II. 40 Young Churchill has got a daughter by the Frasi; Mr. Winnington calls it the opéra comique; the mother is an opera girl; the grandmother was Mrs. Oldfield. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 815/2 Opera-girls, Mantisia saltatoria. 1997 T. Pynchon Mason & Dixon xlii. 427 To my knowledge, tho' there be Tailors, Oracles, Pastrymen, Musicians, Gaming-Pitches, Opera-Girls, Exhibitors of Panoramic Models, bless us all, there is not yet an Electric Eel. < as lemmas |
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