单词 | squire carver |
释义 | > as lemmassquire carver a. Appositive, in early use chiefly in senses related to 3a, as squire beadle (see beadle n. 3), squire carver, squire fruiterer, squire priest, squire saddler; from the 19th cent. in sense 5b, as squire-farmer, squire-parson, squire-priest. ΚΠ (a) (b)1849 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. xxvi. 256 The wine-merchants',..solicitors', squire-farmers' daughters.1863 A. Blomfield Mem. Bp. Blomfield I. iv. 104 The treatment of the mere curate,..and of the independent squire-parson of good family.1888 E. Dowden Transcripts 189 The Chartist-peer, the lord-loving democrat, the squire-priest.1601 F. Tate Househ. Ord. Edward II (1876) 13 The squire fruiterer shal receve electuaries, confections, and other spiceries. 1615 Caution-Book of Balliol Coll. (MS.) f. 11, I John Bell in the University of Oxon Squirebedle. 1618 A. Munday Stow's Suruay of London (new ed.) 184 M. Thomas Cure, Sadler, and Squire Sadler to Queene Elizabeth. 1643 E. Bowles Plaine Eng. 14 They..have..made good Squire Priests prophesie. 1686 tr. J. Chardin Trav. Persia 227 From whence other Officers carry'd em [sc. dishes] before the Squire-carvers. < as lemmas |
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