| 单词 | society beauty |
| 释义 | > as lemmassociety beauty (b) In sense 7c, as society beauty, society journal, society photographer, society woman, etc. ΚΠ 1693Societie man [see sense 7c]. 1825 C. M. Westmacott Eng. Spy I. 106 Society Whigs and society Tories. 1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair li. 451 ‘The best’ foreigners (as the phrase is in our noble and admirable society slang). 1875 H. B. Stowe We & our Neighbors 205 My sisters..are society girls in the best sense. 1882 J. D. McCabe New York 228 An engagement..is promptly announced in one of the ‘Society journals’. 1910 E. M. Forster Howards End iii. 19 She did not..pretend that nothing had happened, as a competent society hostess would have done. 1947 ‘N. Blake’ Minute for Murder ii. 32 He had been a society photographer before the war. 1956 C. Cockburn In Time of Trouble xvii. 228 The secretary was away attending some society wedding. 1976 C. Storr Unnatural Fathers iii. 36 He had had a long liaison with a society beauty. 2007 Guardian 29 Sept. (Review section) 4/4 Young society women such as the morphine addict Brenda Dean Paul and Elizabeth Ponsonby. < as lemmas |
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