| 单词 | bloody shirt |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbloody shirt bloody shirt n. now rare a bloodstained shirt exhibited as a symbol of murder, outrage, or hostility; (United States) figurative as a symbol of the hostility between North and South during the Civil War. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > man-killing or homicide > murder or assassination > [noun] > symbol of bloody shirta1586 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > shirt > types of > other bloody shirta1586 ruffle shirt1749 ruffled shirt1754 dicky1781 overshirt1805 camise1812 mill tog1821 boiled shirt1853 Crimean shirt1853 Crimea shirt1857 shirtwaist1859 shirt1867 polo shirt1887 zephyr1887 Ghost Shirt1890 Henley1890 negligée shirt1895 turtle-neck1897 rugby shirt1902 bush shirt1909 tunic shirt1918 safari shirt1921 button-down1924 thousand-miler1929 aloha shirt1936 buba1937 zoot shirt1942 Hawaiian shirt1955 sweater-shirt1964 beach shirt1966 kimono shirt1968 dashiki1969 a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) i. vi. sig. E1v People..hauing no banners, but bloudie shirtes hanged vpon long staues. 1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall V. l. 266 The bloody shirt of the martyr was exposed in the mosch of Damascus. 1840 L. Cass France 44 [Foucher adds] It is by spreading out the miseries of the workmen, the bloody shirt of some victim,..that the people are excited to take arms. 1876 Congr. Rec. Apr. 2523/2 The ‘bloody shirt’ is freely used at one end of the Capitol, and here at this end is the bugaboo of State rights. 1888 New York Weekly Times 21 Mar. (Farmer) It is reprehensible..for the Bourbons of the South to continue to play on the colour line—the Southern bloody shirt. 1904 Indianapolis News 23 June 6 To those that remember campaigns a few years ago, this is very much like the ‘bloody shirt’, which did duty for so many years. 1948 J. G. Kerwin Civil–Military Relationships in Amer. Life 31 The G.A.R. [= Grand Army of the Republic] waved the Bloody Shirt in many a political campaign, advising its boys in blue to ‘vote as you shot’. < as lemmas |
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