单词 | plantation life |
释义 | > as lemmasplantation life plantation life n. ΚΠ 1799 F.-A.-F. La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt Trav. through United States N. Amer. I. 599 Mrs Washington seems less pleased with a plantation-life than her husband, whom business frequently calls away. 1848 Southern Literary Messenger June 342/2 He never leaves the stately walks of public life, to conduct us to a seat by the fire-side, or to mingle in the pursuits and recreations of plantation life. 1987 Z. Masani Indian Tales of Raj 36 The oldest established section of British Indian business was the plantocracy which ran the tea, coffee and indigo industries. Plantation life..forced them into far closer contact with the real India. < as lemmas |
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