| 单词 | bloomsbury gang |
| 释义 | > as lemmasBloomsbury gang 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. < as lemmas |
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