| 单词 | black coat |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblack coat black coat n. a person who wears a black coat as the typical dress of a particular occupation (see black-coated adj.); spec. a clergyman, a parson (depreciative). ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > parson > [noun] curatec1390 curatorc1390 parson1591 sir1591 black coat1616 curate1687 fingerpost1785 tickle-text1785 society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > non-manual worker > [noun] white-collar1922 narrowback1930 black coat1940 1616 T. Granger Pauls Crowne of Reioycing 6 Many protestant Atheists, and Epicures..hate and deride the very name of a Preacher, and cannot looke on a blacke coate, (as these blacke mouthed hell-hounds terme them) with a patient eye. 1711 J. Swift Examiner No. 26. 165 He delights to have his Table filled with Black-Coats, whom he uses as if they were Gentlemen. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian xiii, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. IV. 300 You are the black-coat's son of Knocktarlitie. 1870 R. W. Emerson Society & Solitude 219 The black-coats are good company only for black-coats. 1940 Archit. Rev. 87 110/1 Both these sorts of public house are essentially working class; the blackcoat's pub is another sort of place. 1995 S. S. Webb Lord Churchill's Coup (1998) ii. iv. 135 The red coats and the black coats were uniting against him. < as lemmas |
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