| 单词 | palm oil ruffian |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspalm oil ruffian palm oil ruffian n. now historical and rare a European trader of palm oil in 19th-cent. West Africa. ΚΠ 1874 ‘Old Shekarry’ Forest & Field x. 158 My fellow-passengers [on a voyage to West Africa in 1861] may be classed in the following categories..the commercial; traders, usually known as ‘Palm-oil Ruffians’ or ‘Coast Lambs’, a class of men much calumniated; [etc.]. 1899 M. H. Kingsley W. Afr. Stud. Introd. 15 The courage and enterprise those men [who established the palm oil trade] displayed under the most depressing and deadly conditions made me proud of being a woman of the nation that turned out the ‘Palm oil ruffians’. 1923 H. H. Johnston Story of my Life viii. 172 There were several men like him as early as the middle 'eighties on the West African coast, utterly dissimilar from the character ascribed to the ‘Palm oil ruffian’ imagined and described by some tipsy British newspaper-writer of those days. < as lemmas |
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