单词 | string man |
释义 | > as lemmasstring man string man n. ΚΠ ?c1470 Liber Niger Domus Regis Edwardi IV (Harl. 610) f. 23 Mynstrells..wheroof some vse trumpetts, some shalmes some small pipes some are stringemen. 1971 Country Life 23 Dec. 1776/3 The peacock for the most distinguished person at the high table was carried into the dining-hall with pompous ceremony on a gold or silver-gilt charger by the most elegant lady of the assembled company, attended by trumpeters, pipers and string-men. string man string man n. = stringer n. 11 (see also sense Compounds 1a). ΘΚΠ society > communication > journalism > journalist > [noun] > stringer string man1943 stringer1952 string correspondent1960 1943 C. Hollingworth German just behind Me ix. 150 By means of bribing his assistant I got a telephone call to my own ‘string man’ in Belgrade in order that my paper should know I was alive. a1966 M. Allingham Cargo of Eagles (1968) viii. 98 I'm the string man in these parts... I..write for the Gazette at Nine Ash and keep a watching brief for the Globe in town. It's called stringing. < as lemmas |
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