单词 | planterdom |
释义 | planterdomn. Now historical. The class or social order of plantation owners or managers, associated esp. with the southern United States and the Caribbean. Also: members of this class. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [noun] > planter > condition or class of plantership1838 planterdom1861 1861 Times 6 June 12/2 Meeting only two or three vehicles containing female planterdom on little excursions of pleasure or business. 1935 S. Maccoby Eng. Radicalism ii. xxi. 352 It was not the Home Government's disregard of the demand for compensation that was destined to produce the famous quarrel between Jamaica planterdom and the Melbourne Ministry. 1956 J. W. Pratt in W. A. Williams Shaping Amer. Diplomacy iii. 111 Between New England Federalism and Southern Planterdom there was implacable enmity. 1979 Plantation Society in Americas 1 31 (title) Impulse and honor: the place of slave and master in the ideology of planterdom. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1861 |
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