单词 | street orator |
释义 | > as lemmasstreet orator street orator n. ΚΠ 1782 Ann. Reg. 1780 ii. Characters 23/1 At Rome, those street-orators sometimes entertain their audience with interesting passages of real history. 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 213/1 The class of street-orators, known in these days as ‘patterers’, and formerly termed ‘mountebanks’. 1933 Times 17 Feb. 13 All the world is asking the question..whether the street orator [sc. Hitler] will become an efficient ruler. 2000 Church Times 10 Mar. 14/1 Leading figures of the ruling élite like Gladstone, and the stirrers of the demos like the numerous no-popery street orators, shared a common horror of the Roman Catholic Church. < as lemmas |
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