| 单词 | puppet-maker |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspuppet-maker puppet-maker n. ΚΠ 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Poupetier, a babe-maker, or puppet-maker. 1740 tr. A. Banier Mythol. & Fables Ancients III. v. viii. 205 Whatever Veneration was paid to the Grand-Nephew of Cæsar, this Deification did not fail to provoke some to rally him; some called him the Puppet-maker. 1860 C. R. Kennedy tr. Demosthenes Olynthiac & Other Public Orations I. 67 Like puppet-makers, you elect your infantry and cavalry officers for the market-place, not for war. 1988 S. Bhatt Brunizem 59 The puppets on every window-sill, every shelf in the puppet-maker's house are waiting. 2006 Guardian (Nexis) 15 Feb. 12 All twinkling eyes and gentleness, Bruna is rather like the kindly old puppet-maker Gepetto in Pinocchio. < as lemmas |
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