| 单词 | out of period |
| 释义 | > as lemmasout of period d. out of period: anachronistic; not in keeping with the times; (in drama, fiction, etc.) not in keeping with the time that is being depicted. ΘΚΠ the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > [adjective] > involving anachronism anachronistic1778 anachronous1795 anachronismatical1801 anachronistical1832 anachronizing1870 out of period1940 1940 A. Seyler Let. in A. Seyler & S. Haggard Craft of Comedy 78 That woman ought to dance as she moves in a seventeenth-century play, to sail in an eighteenth-century one [etc.]... Roughly, then, she wouldn't be out of period. 1961 C. Willock Death in Covert iii. 66 A serving-wench..asked him: ‘Sack, mulled claret, or Madeira?’ Mr Goss felt that two at least of these were out of period. 2001 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 18 Aug. 10 Why is it that in many films and documentaries, the vehicles featured are out of period? < as lemmas |
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