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单词 side-glass
释义

side-glassv.

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: side glass n.
Etymology: < side glass n.
Obsolete (historical after early 18th cent.).
transitive. To gaze at (a person) amorously or flirtatiously through the side window of a carriage. Also with it or intransitive. Cf. side glass n. 2.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (transitive)] > look at through glass or glasses
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1679 T. Shadwell True Widow i. 2 If she side glass you again..ply her next day with a billet doux and you have her sure.
1689 T. Shadwell Bury-Fair 111 Then will I..to the Park. Wildish. So will I; where I will Side-glass you.
1691 Win Her & take Her ii. 16 I had almost forgot to tell you of a pleasant accident between me and a person of quality, in Hyde-park, lately: I side-glass'd her, and kiss'd my hand to her.
1696 P. A. Motteux Love's a Jest iv. 39 I easily believe you've been Side-Glassing in the Park, Side-boxing at the Play-House.
1712 C. Johnson Wife's Relief iii. i. 30 After I have once taken it in my Head, to Side-glass it in the Park, or saunter in a Drawing-Room.
1896 M. E. Braddon London Pride xxi. 361 ‘Indeed, Sir Ralph, I did not know that you ever side-glassed me!’.. ‘I have broken half a dozen coach windows in your service, rattling a glass down with a vehemence which would have startled a Venus in marble to turn and recognise an adorer!’
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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