| 单词 | ragged regiment |
| 释义 | > as lemmasragged regiment ragged regiment n. (originally) a group of beggars; the class of beggars; (later) the group of funereal wax effigies of royalty and nobility kept in Westminster Abbey.The deteriorated state of these relics and their garments gave rise to the humorous name. ΚΠ 1609 T. Dekker Worke for Armorours sig. E3 The fires of this dissention..were more likely to flame more fiercely then to be quenched by the aproach of Pouerty and her ragged regiments. 1619 J. Fletcher Monsieur Thomas (1679) ii Ye have utterly undone; clean discharg'd me, I am for the ragged regiment. 1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 32 You look as if you belong'd to the ragged Regiment. 1761 H. Walpole Let. 18 June (1886) 408 A party went to Westminster Abbey, and among the rest saw the ragged regiment. 1889 Harper's Mag. Aug. 373/1 Since 1839 the ‘Ragged Regiment’..has been closed to sight-seers, and well-nigh forgotten. 1998 Independent (Nexis) 4 July 24 Nelson's effigy, made in 1806, was the last to be placed in Westminster Abbey. Since then the Ragged Regiment have had a chequered career. < as lemmas |
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