| 单词 | state ball |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstate ball C1. attributive with the sense ‘belonging to, used on, or reserved for formal, ceremonial, or royal occasions; richly or splendidly decorated or furnished; (of an action or event) accompanied or characterized by pomp and ceremony’; as state apartment, state ball, state barge, state clothes, state dinner, etc.Some of the more established compounds of this type are treated separately. ΚΠ 1549 H. Latimer 2nd Serm. before Kynges Maiestie 4th Serm. sig. Nviv As Christe when he counterfaited a state going to Hierusalem. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. vi. 207 Vnder starrie State-Cloathes. 1609 G. Markham Famous Whore sig. C2v State-chambers richly deckt and furnished. ?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) iv. 171 She tooke her State-chaire. 1706 tr. Present State Europe Dec. 534 Next came the King and the Princess Royal..in his Majesty's State-Coach. 1750 A. Collins Suppl. Peerage Eng. I. 226 He contributed much to the Embellishment of Warwick-Castle, by fitting up the State Apartment there. 1790 Scots Mag. Apr. 159/2 Prince Caramanico, the Viceroy..gave us a state dinner the next day. 1843 F. W. Fairholt Ld. Mayors' Pageants 152 These courts were held in the state barge. 1855 J. Timbs Curiosities of London 686 The State Carriage now used by the sovereign. 1883 F. Armytage Old Court Customs 178 Court or state balls are given during the season. 1915 Times 26 Mar. 11/4 Lord Wimborne has fixed April 14 for his State entry into Dublin. 1939 Life 19 June 13/3 President Roosevelt..toasted the King at the White House State dinner. 1997 Daily Tel. 14 May 12/5 In the Robing Room, she will change out of the George IV state diadem and into the Imperial State Crown. 2009 M. A. Evans Frommer's Stockholm Day by Day 30/1 Climb the entrance staircase to the rooms that make up the State Apartments. < as lemmas |
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