单词 | bloomsbury |
释义 | Bloomsburyn. 1. A set of writers, artists, and intellectuals living in or associated with Bloomsbury in the early 20th century; a member of this set. Also attributive, associated with, or having similar intellectual pretensions to, the Bloomsbury set. So Bloomsbury group, Bloomsbury set, the above-mentioned set of writers, etc. Also Bloomsbury gang, a political party that appeared in July 1765, led by the 4th Duke of Bedford, and otherwise known as ‘the Bedford party’. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [noun] > specific schools of writers Cockney school1817 sensitivism1891 Félibrige1902 Bloomsbury1910 Squirearchy1930 niggerati1932 New Wave1968 Oulipo1975 society > authority > rule or government > politics > British politics > British party politics > [noun] > other British parties digger1649 levellers1762 country party1763 court-party1763 mountain1829 fourth party1880 S.D.F.1893 S.D.P.1908 Bloomsbury gang1910 National Front1937 NF1970 1910 Encycl. Brit. III. 619/1 Bloomsbury gang. 1914 J. M. Keynes Let. 2 July in R. F. Harrod Life J. M. Keynes (1951) iv. 171 She..is asking no one but a few of my so-called ‘Bloomsbury set’! 1920 D. H. Lawrence Let. 7 May (1962) I. 628 Nothing will happen to the world: Bloomsbury will go on enjoying itself in Paris and elsewhere. 1928 A. P. Herbert Trials of Topsy 8 My dear too Bloomsbury for anything, and such forests of hair both of them. 1931 R. Campbell Georgiad i. 12 It was a voice of 1930 model And in a Bloomsbury accent it could yodel. 1951 R. F. Harrod Life J. M. Keynes v. 184 The Bloomsbury voice was a distinct contribution. It was based on Lytton Strachey's, consisting not so much in a special pronunciation of words as in the cadences of sentences. 1954 J. K. Johnstone (title) The Bloomsbury Group. 2. A member of the Bloomsbury group. Chiefly in plural and humorously respelt Bloomsberries n. (see quot. 1956). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > artist > [noun] > artist of specific movement or period mannerist1695 romanticist1821 trecentist1821 classicist1827 romantic1827 expressionist1850 classicalist1851 Gothicist1861 literalist1862 realist1868 modernist1879 verist1884 classic1885 symbolist1888 decadent1890 veritist1894 neoclassicist1899 neo-romantic1899 renaissancer1899 social realist1909 avant-garde1910 futurist1911 pasticheur1912 Bloomsbury1917 postmodern1917 pre-Romantic1918 Dadaist1919 German expressionist1920 super-realist1925 surrealist1925 New Romantic1930 brutalist1934 socialist-realist1935 avant-gardist1940 New Negro1953 neo-modernist1958 bricoleur1965 popster1965 sound artist1966 performance artist1975 1917 J. M. Murry Let. 15 Sept. in A. Alpers Katherine Mansfield (1980) 253 I think these rumours that are put into motion, whether by Clive or the other Bloomsburies, too preposterous to be taken seriously. 1948 W. Lewis Let. 9 Oct. (1963) 460 It was written by Raymond Mortimer—an old Bloomsbury. 1956 C. Bell Old Friends viii. 129 The name [sc. Bloomsbury] was first applied to a set of friends by Lady MacCarthy—Mrs. Desmond MacCarthy as she then was—in a letter: she calls them ‘the Bloomsberries’. The term, as she used it, had a purely topographical import; and the letter, which doubtless could be found at the bottom of one of five or six tin boxes, must have been written in 1910 or 1911. 1967 E. B. C. Lucas in M. Holroyd Lytton Strachey I. ix. 409 Like all ‘Bloomsberries’, he [sc. Lytton Strachey] disliked pretension and silliness. 1981 Sunday Times 1 Feb. 43/1 To the Bloomsberries she boldly attributes a liberating power over her young life. Derivatives ˈBloomsburyite n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [noun] > specific schools of writers > writer belonging to Alexandrian1818 cockney1818 Satanist1823 spasmodista1849 Phosphorist1859 Félibre1876 sensitive1891 sensitivist1891 Alexandrine1904 Bloomsburian1927 Bloomsburyite1933 scrutineer1958 1933 Times Lit. Suppl. 2 Mar. 148/4 The descriptions..of young earnest and well-meaning Bloomsburyites..could not be bettered. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.1910 |
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