| 单词 | plantation manners |
| 释义 | > as lemmasplantation manners plantation manners n. manners associated with life on a plantation; esp. rude or unsophisticated manners. ΚΠ 1854 H. D. Thoreau Walden 165 Some..had more wits than they knew what to do with; runaway slaves with plantation manners, who listened from time to time, like the fox in the fable, as if they heard the hounds a-baying on their track. 1884 Harper's Mag. Apr. 748/2 There was a good deal of what afterward came to be known as ‘plantation manners’. 1960 New Eng. Q. 33 84 A conservative who disliked the theater, a temperance supporter and a Whig with Free Soil sympathies, Charles could not be expected to be a sympathetic witness of plantation manners. 2000 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 16 Nov. 15/1 Daniel Patrick Moynihan seems a throwback to an earlier style of senator, to the flowing locks and florid style, the tailored ‘toga’, the poses of moral obstruction struck by all those ‘Bourbon’ Southerners who affected plantation manners. < as lemmas |
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