单词 | painted lady |
释义 | painted ladyn. 1. A woman wearing cosmetics; a prostitute; = painted woman n. at painted adj. Compounds 2a. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > a prostitute meretrixOE whoreOE soiled dovea1250 common womanc1330 putec1384 bordel womanc1405 putaina1425 brothelc1450 harlot?a1475 public womanc1510 naughty pack?1529 draba1533 cat1535 strange woman1535 stew1552 causey-paikera1555 putanie?1566 drivelling1570 twigger1573 punka1575 hackney1579 customer1583 commodity1591 streetwalker1591 traffic1591 trug1591 hackster1592 polecat1593 stale1593 mermaid1595 medlar1597 occupant1598 Paphian1598 Winchester goose1598 pagan1600 hell-moth1602 aunt1604 moll1604 prostitution1605 community1606 miss1606 night-worm1606 bat1607 croshabell1607 prostitute1607 pug1607 venturer1607 nag1608 curtal1611 jumbler1611 land-frigate1611 walk-street1611 doll-common1612 turn-up1612 barber's chaira1616 commonera1616 public commonera1616 trader1615 venturea1616 stewpot1616 tweak1617 carry-knave1623 prostibule1623 fling-dusta1625 mar-taila1625 night-shadea1625 waistcoateera1625 night trader1630 coolera1632 meretrician1631 painted ladya1637 treadle1638 buttock1641 night-walker1648 mob?1650 lady (also girl, etc.) of the game1651 lady of pleasure1652 trugmullion1654 fallen woman1659 girlc1662 high-flyer1663 fireship1665 quaedama1670 small girl1671 visor-mask1672 vizard-mask1672 bulker1673 marmalade-madam1674 town miss1675 town woman1675 lady of the night1677 mawks1677 fling-stink1679 Whetstone whore1684 man-leech1687 nocturnal1693 hack1699 strum1699 fille de joie1705 market-dame1706 screw1725 girl of (the) town1733 Cytherean1751 street girl1764 monnisher1765 lady of easy virtue1766 woman (also lady) of the town1766 kennel-nymph1771 chicken1782 stargazer1785 loose fish1809 receiver general1811 Cyprian1819 mollya1822 dolly-mop1834 hooker1845 charver1846 tail1846 horse-breaker1861 professional1862 flagger1865 cocodette1867 cocotte1867 queen's woman1871 common prostitute1875 joro1884 geisha1887 horizontal1888 flossy1893 moth1896 girl of the pavement1900 pross1902 prossie1902 pusher1902 split-arse mechanic1903 broad1914 shawl1922 bum1923 quiff1923 hustler1924 lady of the evening1924 prostie1926 working girl1928 prostisciutto1930 maggie1932 brass1934 brass nail1934 mud kicker1934 scupper1935 model1936 poule de luxe1937 pro1937 chromo1941 Tom1941 pan-pan1949 twopenny upright1958 scrubber1959 slack1959 yum-yum girl1960 Suzie Wong1962 mattress1964 jamette1965 ho1966 sex worker1971 pavement princess1976 parlour girl1979 crack whore1990 a1637 B. Jonson Masque of Gypsies 86 in tr. Horace Art of Poetry (1640) A reverend painted Lady was brought, And coffin'd in crust, till now she was hoary. 1709 R. Gould Wks. II. 232 Here painted Ladies..Mobb'd like Dowdies at the House of Prayer. 1863 M. Oliphant Salem Chapel I. viii. 133 Painted ladies, that come out of a night with low necks and flowers in their hair, to have all Carlingford a-staring at them, ain't fit company for a good pastor. 1915 V. Woolf Voy. Out xvii The painted lady who always came in late. 1986 B. Dijkstra Idols of Perversity iii. 77 The decorative and mildly..erotic implications purveyed by such bevies of pleasantly exhausted painted ladies made these works ideal for clubs and public buildings. 1991 C. Eddy Stairway to Hell 59/2 Switched-on Bach transforming into bitched-on schlock, a sweet painted lady with lotsa kids bribing a judge fleshwise. 2. A migratory nymphalid butterfly, Cynthia (or Vanessa) cardui, having brownish orange wings with black and white markings, and found worldwide (except in South America). Also (in full American painted lady): the painted beauty, C. virginiensis, of North America. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Rhopalocera (butterflies) > [noun] > family Nymphalidae > subfamily Ithomiinae > genus Vanessa > vanessa cardui (painted lady) painted lady1699 thistle-butterfly1836 1699 J. Petiver Musei Petiveriani iv-v. 35 Papilio eleganter variegat. agilis..The Painted Lady. 1766 M. Harris Aurelian 24 The Painted Lady... These [butter]Flies are not very common; the Reason of which is, all Weathers do not agree with them. 1829 S. Glover Hist. County of Derby I. 174 Papilio Pictus, Painted Lady Butterfly. 1857 F. Gerhard Illinois as it Is 258 Very frequent is the painted lady (V. cardui) which rocks on flowers in all parts of the globe. 1890 Daily News 14 Oct. 5/1 The butterflies of autumn, admiral and painted lady, sail from bush to bush. 1969 D. F. Costello Prairie World vii. 137 Among the other butterflies common to the prairie and its borders are the red admiral..and the painted lady (V. cardui), which is fond of thistle flowers. 1991 Newsday (N.Y.) 23 Feb. ii. 28 The American painted lady caterpillars are partial to pussy toes. 3. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > pinks or carnations gillyflower1517 carnation1538 clove gillyflower1538 incarnation1538 William1538 pink1566 John1572 Indian eye1573 sops-in-wine1573 sweet John1573 sweet-william1573 tuft gillyflower1573 Colmenier1578 small honesty1578 tol-me-neer1578 London tuft1597 maidenly pink1597 mountain pink1597 clove-carnation1605 musk-gillyflower1607 London pride1629 pride of London1629 maiden pink1650 Indian pink1664 Spanish pink1664 pheasant's eye pink1718 flake1727 flame1727 picotee1727 old man's head1731 painted lady1731 piquet1731 China-pink1736 clove1746 wild pink1753 lime-wort1777 matted thrift1792 clove-pink1837 Cheddar Pink1843 Dianthus1849 bunch pink1857 perpetual-flowering carnation1861 cliff pink1863 meadow pink1866 musk carnation1866 Jack1873 wax-pink1891 Malmaison1892 grenadin1904 1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Carophyllus The Damask Pink, White Shock, Scarlet, Pheasant's-ey'd Pink; of which there are great Varieties, both with single and double Flowers, Old Man's Head, Painted Lady, with several others. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Painted lady, a term for a particular sort of carnations, the flowers of which have all their petals red or purple on the out side, and white underneath. b. A bicoloured form of the sweet pea, Lathyrus odoratus (also painted lady pea and †painted lady pease), or of the scarlet runner, Phaseolus coccineus (also painted lady scarlet runner). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > pea flowers everlasting pea1599 sweet-scented pea1728 sweet pea1732 painted lady pea1760 pea-flower1824 pride of California1895 1760 J. Alcock Life Miss F. Brown i. 5 Her Face was adorned with White and Red, like the blossom of a painted lady pea. 1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 321 Painted Lady Pease, Lathyrus. 1800 M. Edgeworth Parent's Assistant (ed. 3) V. 210 The seedsman was folding up some painted-ladypease. 1823 G. Crabb Universal Technol. Dict. Painted lady, the name of a beautifully variegated pea, the Lathyrus odoratus of Linnæus. 1851 Birmingham & Midl. Gardeners' Mag. Apr. 45 A row of Scarlet Runners may be sown (those called Painted Ladies are very ornamental as well as useful). c1878 T. E. Brown Capt. Tom & Capt. Hugh 29 Hughie was settin' convolvulars, And Annie was setting these—what's their name? Painted ladies! aye, the same—Like butterflies mostly—lovely things, With their little curly catchy strings! 1956 Dict. Gardening (Royal Hort. Soc.) (ed. 2) I. 244/2 The Common Scarlet Runner with scarlet flowers, and black..seeds... the Painted Lady with scarlet and white flowers and brown..seeds [etc.]. 1995 Independent 27 May 31/2 A tunnel of hazel sticks, supporting ‘Painted Lady’ runner beans. c. Chiefly South African and Australian. Any of several species of gladiolus with pink markings on its flowers. Chiefly in plural. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > iris and related flowers > gladioli or freesia gladiolec1420 corn-flag1578 corn-sedge1597 lily-grass1597 sword-grass1598 petty gladdon1601 sword-lily1786 Afrikaner1801 freesia1879 kalkoentjie1906 painted lady1906 Afrikander1913 glad1923 1906 B. Stoneman Plants S. Afr. xix. 198 Gladiolus... ‘Painted Ladies’ and ‘Kalkoentjes’ belong here. Eighty-one species of this large genus are found in South Africa. 1927 Farming S. Afr. 171 How often does one see..the beautiful ‘painted ladies’ or ‘aandblommetjies’ adding scent to the garden in the evening. 1972 Standard Encycl. Southern Afr. V. 202/1 The painted ladies (e.g. G. carneus) have white or pink trumpet-shaped flowers with markings on the lower perianth lobes. 1997 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 27 Mar. 16 Most nurseries stock the popular G[ladiolus] × colvillei, The Bride, and G. carneus, painted lady. 4. U.S. A style of 19th-cent. house decorated with brightly coloured paintwork, particularly associated with parts of San Francisco. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > other types of house houseOE showernc1175 house of fencec1425 abbey1665 park1750 trust house1751 subhouse1771 hurley-house1814 bure1843 ideal home1854 tholtan1856 picture house1858 village-house1862 tumble-down1866 tree-house1867 mazet1873 riad1881 slaughterhouse1899 whare puni1911 mas1912 social housing1928 quadruplex1939 share house1945 starter home1948 show house1957 painted lady1978 self-build1978 starter1979 Earthship1985 Queenslander1985 des res1986 common house1989 1978 E. Pomada & M. Larsen Painted Ladies 7/1 San Francisco is a haven for people who can appreciate as well as create Painted Ladies... The Colorist Movement developed spontaneously but haltingly in the 1960s... Thanks to the passion and creativity of painters, colorists, and homeowners, the Painted Ladies..are now more beautiful than ever. 1983 Washington Post (Nexis) 20 Mar. (Book World section) 11 A house tour of San Francisco's ‘Painted Ladies’, Victorian row-houses tarted up with gaudy colours. 1996 Mid-Atlantic Weekends Spring 63/1 The estate also includes the Wedgewood House, built in 1870, a Victorian ‘painted lady’ with a wraparound veranda. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1637 |
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