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单词 poncif
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poncifn.

Brit. /pɒnˈsiːf/, U.S. /pɑnˈsif/
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French poncif.
Etymology: < French poncif bad drawing or painting lacking in originality (1821), cliché, stereotype (1866 or earlier), transferred uses of poncif stencil (1551 in Middle French; < poncer (see pounce v.2) + -if -ive suffix). Compare cliché n. and adj.
Conventional or hackneyed art, ideas, etc.; cliché, stereotype; an instance of this.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > fiction > [noun] > plot > stereotyped or conventional
poncif1903
1903 Times 9 Feb. 8/1 The French have a useful name for anything done in the arts upon a mechanical formula. They call it a ‘poncif’.
1923 J. M. Murry Pencillings 136 The modern spirit, with its almost fanatical desire to get rid of the poncif, might make a fine thing of classical translation.
1940 Scrutiny 9 258 He [sc. Verlaine] revived some of the oldest and loveliest verse-forms; and he managed, in his best work, to escape from the Romantic poncif and to go back to something more human.
1999 J. A. Hiddleston Baudelaire & Art of Memory vi. 274 If their minds have not been corrupted by the poncifs of fashion,..or the kind of art which falsifies the conditions of life.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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