单词 | sharp dresser |
释义 | > as lemmassharp dresser c. A person who dresses elegantly or stylishly. Also with qualifying adjective: a person who dresses in a specified way, as good dresser, sharp dresser, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > [noun] > in specific way > other > one who pinchback1600 dresser1679 parakeet1876 snappy dresser1925 sharpster1957 Wild Westerner1963 power dresser1980 1679 J. Crowne Ambitious Statesman ii. 28 He is no dresser, do but see how awkardly His damn'd Crevat is tyed? 1717 Way of Town 10 An easy, modest Man, and a good Dresser; Speaks French, and wears clean Linnen ev'ry Day. 1778 F. Burney Let. Sept. in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1994) III. 99 I don't think Mrs. Burney a very good Dresser. 1826 M. M. Sherwood Lady of Manor (ed. 2) IV. xxi. 261 Of all the dressers I ever saw, she is the worst. 1837 E. Bulwer-Lytton Ernest Maltravers I. ii. i. 163 The most perfect dresser that even France could exhibit. 1909 Sat. Evening Post 31 July 3/1 I thought he was a clean-cut, good-looking young fellow, not much of a dresser, perhaps, although his blue trunks looked fresh. 1940 N.Z. Parl. Deb. 254 537/2 The neighbour's wife is some dresser and looks well in a fur coat. 2006 E. Collinsworth It Might Have Been what He Said 57 With the exception of James, who's quite a dresser, the lot of them looked a bit dingy. < as lemmas |
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