| 单词 | spouting place |
| 释义 | > as lemmasspouting place C1. attributive in sense 3, esp. designating a club or place where people practise or engage in recitation, declamation, or oratory, as spouting club, spouting place, spouting society, etc. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > speech-making > [noun] > society for spouting club1781 spouting society1806 1756 A. Murphy Apprentice Epilogue I could have shewn him, had he been inclin'd, A spouting Junto of the Female Kind. 1781 V. Knox Liberal Educ. §20 Neither is it desirable, that he should acquire that love..of declaiming, which may introduce him to spouting clubs, or disputing societies. 1801 M. Edgeworth Forester in Moral Tales I. 136 The spouting action of a player. 1806 H. Siddons Maid, Wife, & Widow II. 146 He was a great orator at the spouting societies. 1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park I. xiii. 263 For any thing of the Acting, Spouting, Reciting kind, I think he has always a decided taste. View more context for this quotation 1845 T. Carlyle 11 Nov. in Corr. Emerson & Carlyle (1964) 384 The sugary twaddle one gets the offer of in Exeter-Hall and other Spouting-places! 1858 A. Mayhew Paved with Gold 279 Give him a spoutin-box and black togs and he'd send such chaps as you and me..singing psalms before a week was gone. 1884 E. Yates Recoll. & Experiences I. iii. 99 ‘The Lays of Ancient Rome’ had been favourite spouting-pieces at Highgate. 1902 Sketch 31 Dec. 406/2 Their spouting-place and clerical offices must be part of the Great River Frontage. 1978 P. H. Highfill et al. Biogr. Dict. Actors V. 20/1 Much of the rest of his time during 1764 he spent enthralled by the amateur declamation at the 'spouting club' which perennially held forth at the French Horn tavern. 2014 M. Carlson in J. Swindells & D. F. Taylor Oxf. Handbk. Georgian Theatre iii. 50 Murphy's farce disseminated the possibility of amateur theatricals far more broadly than a Cheapside spouting club. < as lemmas |
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