单词 | shakespeare |
释义 | Shakespearen. A person (occasionally a thing) comparable to Shakespeare, esp. as being pre-eminent in a particular sphere. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > pre-eminence > [noun] > chief of its or his kind sunOE lordOE princec1225 primatec1384 princessc1390 giant1535 queen1554 first gentleman1584 Prester John1598 arch1605 gigant1610 principate1651 top-stone1659 first lady1677 Shakespeare1821 king1829 prius1882 aristocrat1883 Sun King1971 1821 M. Edgeworth Let. 23 Oct. (1971) 243 Humboldt is the Shakespear of travellers—as much superior in genius to other travellers as Shakespear to other poets. 1859 A. J. Munby Diary 17 Mar. in D. Hudson Munby (1972) 28 When..the poetic soul..has learnt..to see the poetic side of all such things, then we may have a Homer of the railway and a Shakespeare of the Ballot. 1905 ‘M. Twain’ in N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 3 The telegraph, the telephone..the Pullman car..the Shakespeares of the inventor-tribe, so to speak. 1931 R. Campbell Georgiad ii. 36 A Fabian Shakespeare of the Summer Schools To other poets laying down my rules. Compounds Shakespeare collar n. (a) = polo collar n. at polo n.2 Compounds 2; (b) (see quot. 1960). ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > covering or next to neck > collar > types of chevesailec1400 roll collar1832 coat-collar1833 bertha1842 step-roll1881 open-neck1894 step-collar1895 button-down1897 turtle-neck1897 Shakespeare collar1907 polo collar1909 shawl collar1913 polo neck1924 mandarin collar1952 petal collar1957 polo1967 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > neck-wear > [noun] > collar > types of > other rabat1578 falling band1581 rebato1589 fall1598 piccadill1607 golilla1673 collarettea1685 banda1700 turn-over1716 Vandyke1755 falling-down collar1758 falling collar1770 fall-down?1796 yoke collar1817 rabatine1821 dicky1830 dog collar1852 Piccadilly collar1853 all-rounder1854 all round1855 turnover collara1861 Quaker collar1869 Eton collar1875 Toby collar1885 Eton1887 sailor collar1895 roll-neck1898 Shakespeare collar1907 polo collar1909 white-collar1910 tab collar1928 Peter Pan collar1948 tie-neck1968 1907 Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 873/1 Cotton Football Shirts..Shakespeare collar, and three buttons. 1913 C. Mackenzie Sinister St. I. ii. v. 209 In his blue serge suit, wearing what the shops called a Polo or Shakespeare collar, Michael felt more at ease. 1960 C. W. Cunnington et al. Dict. Eng. Costume 192/1 Shakespeare collar. 1860's on. A shallow turn-over collar, the points projecting downwards onto the shirt-front. Shakespeare country n. the part of Warwickshire around Stratford-on-Avon, birthplace of Shakespeare. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > British Isles > England > [noun] > districts of England wealdOE Oxon.c1439 the Stannaries1455 Midland1555 Home Counties1695 Islandshire1705 lakes1774 file1775 potteries1795 the Shires1796 Tyneside1824 lakeland1829 Lake District1835 lake country1842 Wessex1868 Shakespeare country1900 Geordieland1901 cherry country1902 1900 J. Leyland Shakespeare Country 92 This survey of Shakespeare Country has traversed a rich district of middle England that was familiar to the great poet in his boyhood. 1966 J. Wainwright Crystallised Carbon Pig iv. 20 The plan worked..as smoothly..as an American tourist's trip through the Shakespeare country. 1972 Times 4 Aug. 4/2 The ‘Shakespeare country’ around Stratford-upon-Avon, Oxford and Cambridge are the main non-metropolitan attractions. Shakespeare industry n. the large-scale production of writings about Shakespeare, items commemorating Shakespeare, etc.; the commercial exploitation of objects, places, etc., associated with Shakespeare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > playwriting > [noun] > playwright > commercialization of specific writer Shakespeare industry1939 1939 Brown & Fearon (title) Amazing monument: a short history of the Shakespeare industry. 1958 Listener 2 Oct. 523/1 Is not much of this book~making on the Bard another branch of the Shakespeare industry? 1962 Observer 4 Mar. 13/6 The 1864 affair..marked the dawn of the Shakespeare industry. At Stratford..‘streets were adorned with flags and banners; the townsfolk and visitors wore the..Shakespeare badge’, [etc.]. Derivatives ˈShakespeare v. (intransitive) to act in a Shakespeare play.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1896 G. B. Shaw in Sat. Rev. 4 Apr. 349/1 Madame de Navarro has declaimed, spouted, statuesqued, Shakespeared, and all the rest of it. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online September 2019). < n.1821 |
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