| 单词 | prison rhyme |
| 释义 | > as lemmasprison rhyme prison rhyme n. rare ΚΠ 1845 T. Cooper (title) The purgatory of suicides; a prison-rhyme in ten books. 1916 T. Hake & A. Compton-Rickett Life & Lett. T. Watts-Dunton I. vii. 179 Faulty and marred by affectation as is the ballad [sc. The Ballad of Reading Gaol], in it is nevertheless a vital poem which has survived, partly..because there is a peculiar and narrow place open and ready to receive it, the place devoted to prison rhymes. 1979 N. Mailer Executioner's Song Afterword 1052 The old prison rhyme at the beginning and end of this book is not, alas, an ancient ditty but a new one, and was written by this author ten years ago for his movie Maidstone. < as lemmas |
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