| 单词 | silk-stocking gentry |
| 释义 | > as lemmassilk-stocking gentry C1. Simple attributive, as (sense 2a) silk-stocking company, silk-stocking gentry, etc. U.S. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > aristocracy or upper class > [noun] > group of silk-stocking gentry1798 society > society and the community > social class > nobility > aristocracy or upper class > [adjective] > of group of silk stocking1798 1798 Deb. Congr. U.S. 15 June (1851) 1948 If they wished to place them in a ridiculous point of view, or to produce for them the name of the Silk Stocking Company, or any other term of derision, they could not take a more effectual course to obtain it. 1812 Jefferson Let. 11 June in Papers Retirement Ser. (2008) V. 126 [They] will find their levees crouded with silk-stocking gentry, but no yeomanry. 1836 D. Crockett Exploits & Adventures in Texas iv. 58 You may be called a drunken dog by some of the clean shirt and silk stocking gentry. 1842 J. Aiton Domest. Econ. (1857) 93 One-third of them..are sure to catch a cold..from every silk-stocking affair in the winter season. 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products 344/2 Preparing hard silk..for yarn for the silk-stocking maker. 1874 ‘H. Churton’ Toinette xiii. 154 She had managed to pick up..‘a tolerable English education’,..[possibly] through the charity of some teacher at the ‘Silk-Stocking Academy’, on ‘Gentleman Ridge’. 1903 N.Y. Sun 28 Nov. 4 He is the representative of the wealthy intellectual, the cultured, the ‘silk stocking’ element, for which the people in general have no abiding affection. 1980 Verbatim Autumn 1/2 Next after hill the commonest generic is row (several examples already given). The most frequent response of this type was Silk Stocking Row. < as lemmas |
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