| 单词 | platform woman |
| 释义 | > as lemmasplatform woman platform woman n. a female public speaker. ΚΠ 1871 Atlantic Monthly Mar. 279/2 Lysistrata, if living now, would be able to champion the cause of woman's rights and woman's suffrage with as much wit, keenness of repartee, eloquence, and states-womanship as the foremost of our platform women. 1876 T. Hardy Hand of Ethelberta II. xxxvii. 115 These stage and platform women have what they are pleased to call Bohemianism so thoroughly engrained with their natures that [etc.]. 1901 Westm. Gaz. 24 Aug. 8/1 She is not a ‘platform woman’ in the common acceptation of the phrase. 1976 Spare Rib Oct. 33/3 The ‘strong-minded’ or ‘platform’ woman was the Victorian equivalent of the modern media image of the bigoted, and bra-burning ‘libber’. < as lemmas |
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