| 单词 | parlour man |
| 释义 | > as lemmasparlour man parlour man n. now historical a male domestic servant; = house parlourman n. at house n.1 and int. Compounds 10 (the sense in quot. 1851 is uncertain). ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > domestic servant > [noun] > parlour servant parlour trimmer1552 parlour man1851 1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick lvi. 298 Beale's..frontispiece, boats attacking Sperm Whales, though no doubt calculated to excite the civil scepticism of some parlour men, is admirably correct..in its general effect. 1922 Glasgow Herald 31 Oct. 7/1 The men who have disappointed as ‘housemen’ and ‘parlourmen’ are for the most part ex-Service men..prepared to do anything to get a job. 1994 New Statesman & Society (Nexis) 18 Nov. 20 The Boy Scout movement made an extraordinary intervention in this area in the 1930s with the Rover Scout Training and Employment Scheme. It proposed to turn young, single unemployed men into parlour men, kitchen men, cooks, [etc.]. < as lemmas |
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