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单词 prim-lipped
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prim-lipped
prim-lipped, prim-seeming, prim-set, adjs.
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1735 Prompter 21 Jan. 2/2 Will she give Room to the prim-seeming Wife, or the less-cautious Widow?
1841 Bentley's Misc. Dec. 584 Mrs. Dobinson's prim-visaged lady's maid.
1899 Westm. Gaz. 12 June 1/3 Then Force scarce hid, with a prim-set lip, the length of its eager tooth.
1926 J. Masefield Odtaa xix. 318 A prim-lipped man, with the look of a ‘spoiled priest’,..seemed to be in charge of the guard.
1953 E. S. Grenfell in C. K. Stead N.Z. Short Stories (1966) 2nd Ser. 74 The old man turned a..prim-lipped face to the parson.
1996 A. Ghosh Calcutta Chromosome (1997) xxiii. 165 It seemed like a strangely motley assortment of people:..a few young students, several prim-looking middle-class women—people you would never expect to see together.
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