| 单词 | blue-ribbonism |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblue-ˈribbonism blue-ˈribbonism n. now historical (also with capital initials) the beliefs and practices of those temperance movements whose members wear the blue ribbon (sense A. 3); (more generally) temperance, teetotalism. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > abstention from drinking > [noun] > total abstinence total abstinence1831 teetotalism1834 Rechabitism1841 Good Templarism1859 nephalism1860 blue-ribbonism1867 total abstention1880 temperance1887 Templarism1888 1867 Wrexham & Denbighshire Advertiser 6 July 6/4 Blue Ribbonism says that it is better to enter into life maimed than into death whole. 1920 Unpartizan Rev. Oct. 295 There were occasional periods of blue-ribbonism, during which his voice was raucous in denunciation of the devil that lurked in the glass. 1984 P. Barnes Barnes Ancestry xix. 60 By 1883 we find him espousing the cause of Total Abstinence from liquor, or Blue Ribbonism as it was then called. < as lemmas |
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