单词 | penny novelette |
释义 | > as lemmaspenny novelette penny novelette n. ΚΠ 1896 G. B. Shaw in Sat. Rev. 10 Oct. 387/1 You would never dream of asking why Morris did not read penny novelettes, or hang his rooms with Christmas-number chromolithographs. 1937 A. Koestler Spanish Test. ii. 237 In our moments of greatest excitement, at the so-called great moments of life, we all behave like characters in a penny novelette. 1994 Glasgow Herald (Nexis) 26 Jan. 13 It remains unclear why the Prime Minister of Great Britain was lunching with the 92-year-old authoress of the world's worst penny novelettes. < as lemmas |
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