| 单词 | blue-domer |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblue-domer blue-domer n. colloquial a person who does not go to church, preferring to worship outdoors beneath the ‘blue dome’ of heaven.Perhaps after Shelley (see quot. 1820). ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > other sects and movements > blue-domeism > [noun] > person blue-domer1899 blue-domeist1935 1820 P. B. Shelley Cloud in Prometheus Unbound 200 And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams, Build up the blue dome of air.] 1899 W. Kennedy Beasts vii. 146 They have one and all elected to be ‘blue-domers’. 1924 G. K. Chesterton in Illustr. London News 6 Sept. 424/1 A vast mass of modern Englishmen are bluedomers... I prefer the bluedomer to the blue-deviller, the mere pessimist and enemy of earth and sky. 1962 Times Lit. Suppl. 3 Aug. 554/4 ‘Blue-domer’ parents in whose eyes the most damnable thing was to be ‘pi’. 2003 T. Griggs Rogue's Wedding viii. 77 Grif had asked if he was Catholic, and Jean had said no, he was a blue-domer, he worshipped under the heavens, believed only in the sky. < as lemmas |
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