| 单词 | silver-fork |
| 释义 | > as lemmassilver-fork silver-fork n. used attributively to designate a school of novelists about 1830 distinguished by an affectation of gentility; also applied to later novelists displaying similar characteristics. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [adjective] > affecting refinement young-ladyfied1616 genteel1631 genteea1680 fal-lal1747 shabby-genteel1754 fine-ladylike1755 fine-ladyish1777 ladyish1830 silver-fork1831 haw-haw1841 lardy-dardy1861 la-di-dac1883 refained1925 society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > novel > [adjective] > specific novelists silver-fork1831 1827 Examiner 18 Nov. 722/2 A writer of this accomplished stamp..also informs you that the quality eat fish with silver forks.] 1831 Times 15 Dec. 5/3 A single chapter of any one of them is worth more than the whole bundle of those contemptible productions of the silver-fork school, which are called ‘fashionable novels’. 1834 Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 1 59/1 A man who would die a martyr to his faith in the silver-fork school of manners and morals. 1884 J. Payn Some Lit. Recoll. 154 It had the culture of the silver-fork school without their affectation. 1974 Times Lit. Suppl. 4 Oct. 1092/5 The suspicion grows that this is a new-style ‘silver fork’ novel, with merchant bankers taking the place of noble dukes. < as lemmas |
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