单词 | orange girl |
释义 | > as lemmasorange girl orange girl n. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of provisions > seller of fruit > woman fruitesterc1386 apple-wife1599 apple-woman1607 fruit-wife1611 orange wifea1616 orange-woman1616 coster-wife1661 orange-wench1665 orange-miss1694 fruiteress1713 fruit-girl1750 orange girl1764 fruit-woman1849 costeress1869 1764 J. Otis Rights Brit. Colonies i Had not apple women and orange girls as good a right to give their respectable suffrages for a new King as the philosopher, courtier, petit-mattre, and politician? 1842 Knickerbocker 20 472 The orange-girl is generally allowed to enter [an auction-store], for auctioneers are mortal, and sometimes eat oranges. 1939 G. B. Shaw In Good King Charles's Golden Days i. 60 I never was an orange girl; but I have the gutter in my blood all right. 1970 J. McPhee Crofter & Laird 121 During the Restoration, the young women carrying baskets of oranges used to stand near the stage in London theatres,..and sell oranges at sixpence apiece and themselves for a little more. The girls were known as Orange Girls. < as lemmas |
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