| 单词 | squire of dames or ladies |
| 释义 | > as lemmassquire of dames or ladies b. squire of dames or ladies, one who devotes himself to the service of ladies or pays marked attentions to them. †Also allusively, a pimp or pander. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > courtship or wooing > [noun] > one devoted to the service of ladies squire of dames or ladies1590 society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > pimping or procuring > procurer of either sex > pimp putourc1390 panderc1450 mitchera1500 apple-squire?1536 squire of dames or ladies1590 apron-squire1593 bed-broker1594 pimp1600 pippin squire1600 petticoat-monger1605 smockster1608 underputter1608 broker-between1609 squire of the placket1611 squire1612 fleshmongera1616 cock bawd1632 whiskin1632 pimp-whiskin1638 bully1675 foot pimp1690 mutton-broker1694 pimp whisk1707 flash-man1789 panderer1826 bludger1856 whoremaster1864 mack1894 lover1904 jelly bean1905 procureur1910 P.I.1928 sweetback1929 sweet man1942 nookie-bookie1943 papasan1970 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. vii. sig. Ii7v As for my name, it mistreth not to tell; Call me the Squyre of Dames that me beseemeth well. a1625 J. Fletcher Monsieur Thomas (1639) i. i. sig. B2 Val. What, the old squire of dames still? Hyl. Still the admirer of their goodnesse. 1632 P. Massinger Emperour of East i. ii. sig. C3v You are The Squire of Dames, deuoted to the seruice Of gamesome Ladies,..their close bawde. a1640 P. Massinger Parl. of Love (1976) iv. iii. 39 And how, my honest squire of the dames? 1886 Illustr. London News 9 Jan. 31/2 Such attentions as would have been considered marked even in a ‘Squire of ladies’. 1900 R. H. Savage Brought to Bay vi. 105 It was no light-minded squire of dames who sat alone in the smoking-room. < as lemmas |
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