| 单词 | singing woman |
| 释义 | > as lemmassinging woman b. Similarly singing boy, singing clerk. Also, in other than ecclesiastical use, singing girl, singing woman. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > singer > [noun] > female singeressa1382 chantressc1390 singing girl1535 songstress1684 music-girl1734 cantatrice1803 chanteuse1823 canary1862 singstress1873 chantoosie1940 thrush1940 warbler1946 society > faith > church government > laity > lay functionaries > chorister > [noun] songereOE childOE clergionc1325 choristerc1360 chanterc1384 quirera1425 choirman1488 singing man1527 clerk1549 chorista1552 songman1599 singing boy1666 sing-man1691 white boy1691 white man1691 choirist1773 secular1786 chorister-boy1817 choirboy1843 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Chron. xxxv. 25 All the synginge men and wemen [1611 the singing women]. 1548 T. Cooper Bibliotheca Eliotæ (rev. ed.) Cantrix,..a syngyng woman. 1666 S. Pepys Diary 26 Feb. (1972) VII. 58 And hither comes cushions to us, and a young singing-boy to bring us a copy of the Anthemne to be sung. 1682 N. O. tr. N. Boileau-Despréaux Lutrin iv. 25 Let Singing-boyes Whose Pension's pay for 't, do those Drudgeries! 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 41 Mr. John Taplash..desires your Vote for Singing-Clerk of this Parish. 1734 A. Pope Sober Advice from Horace 5 ‘With Wives I never sin.’ But Singing-Girls and Mimicks draw him in. 1820 T. Mitchell in tr. Aristophanes Comedies I. 302 (note) The dicast..enters with a torch in one hand, and leads a singing-girl in the other. 1880 R. Browning Muléykeh 59 For a couple of singing-girls his robe has he torn in two. < as lemmas |
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