| 单词 | quality-mad | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasquality-mad  a.   With sense ‘of high social standing, of good breeding, noble’, as  quality acquaintance,  quality air,  quality blood,  quality end,  quality friend,  quality gentleman,  quality horse,  quality lady,  quality living,  quality pride,  quality white, etc.;  quality-mad adj.Common in the 18th and early 19th centuries; now archaic. ΚΠ 1701    G. Farquhar Sir Harry Wildair  ii. i. 12  				Something was the matter, I wanted of Quality-Air. 1706    R. Estcourt Fair Example  i. i. 10  				Your Quality Lady, when she speaks, 'tis thus. 1748    S. Richardson Clarissa III. xxxv. 183  				His relations do not despise the fugitive, as persons of their rank and quality-pride might be supposed to do. 1751    T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle III. xc. 257  				Peregrine found some ladies of his quality-acquaintance. 1751    T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle II. lxxiii. 281  				The influence of Peregrine's new quality-friends. 1768    Woman of Honor I. 134  				She is so stark quality-mad. 1784    R. Bage Barham Downs I. 233  				My Lady's passion for quality living. 1786    A. Mackenzie Gamesters I. 139  				To every coffee-house at this quality-end of the town. 1810    S. Green Romance Readers & Romance Writers I. v. 87  				She knew but little of fashionable life, and thought every thing that was practised by her quality friend must be right. 1819    Metropolis 		(ed. 2)	 III. 149  				The quality-end of the town. 1835    W. Irving Beauties 221  				Mrs. Lamb, when she had no engagements with her quality acquaintance, would give..tea junkettings. 1837    T. Carlyle French Revol. II.  ii. ii. 104  				Young..men, with quality-blood in them, poisoned with quality-pride. 1864    Atlantic Monthly Feb. 174/1  				She was a sweet-spoken young thing,—not like Miss Hammond, with her proud, quality airs. 1868    Atlantic Monthly Jan. 104/1  				Quality ladies took their bitters regular. 1891    Field 7 Mar. 334/2  				Quite a quality horse is Gratian. 1908    J. M. Sullivan Criminal Slang 1  				A quality gentleman, a gentleman by birth and education. 1966    K. L. Morgan in  A. Dundes Mother Wit 		(1973)	 603/1  				I never questioned the implication that..my white ancestors were ‘quality’ whites. 2004    S. Olson Children of God go Bowling vi. 84  				They would all nod and agree that he was ‘quality’ or ‘a quality person’. This puzzled me... We never discussed who was ‘quality’. < as lemmas | 
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