| 单词 | penny blood |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspenny blood penny blood n. now chiefly historical a cheaply published work of fiction characterized by sensationalism or violence; cf. penny dreadful n. and adj. ΚΠ 1892 Standard 22 Aug. 2/5 On the lad the Constable..found a number of copies of what are known as ‘penny bloods’. 1925 W. de la Mare Two Tales 32 The penny blood concealed in his ‘Arithmetic’. 2005 Times Lit. Suppl. 18 Mar. 29/2 The accelerating popularity of such genres as the Newgate novel and its salacious successors, the ‘shilling shocker’ and the ‘penny blood’. < as lemmas |
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