| 单词 | strolling actor |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstrolling actor That strolls; wandering, roving, itinerant. Chiefly in strolling actor, strolling player, an actor of a low class, who wanders about the country, giving performances in temporary buildings or hired rooms. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [adjective] walkingc1390 arrant1550 ambulatory1604 itinerating1611 itinerary1617 stray1620 strolling1621 itineral1627 itineratea1628 perambulatory1650 peregrinatory1773 obambulatory1855 perambulant1865 perambulating1926 society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > [adjective] > going on foot > leisurely or idly strolling1621 sauntering1672 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > actor > [noun] > strolling player stroller1608 strolling actor1621 strolla1627 show-fellow1756 budgeter1815 omee1859 society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [adjective] > with no fixed aim or wandering > idly strolling1709 1621 B. Jonson From a Gipsie in Wks. (1640) 77 From a strolling Tinkers sheete, Or a payre of Carriers feet..Blesse the Sov'raigne, and his smelling. 1652 R. Brome Joviall Crew v. sig. N3v But is there a Play to be expected, and acted by Beggars? Cla. That is to say, by Vagabonds; that is to say, by strowling Players. 1673 R. Head Canting Acad. 86 Strowling-Morts are such as pretend to be Widdows, travelling about from County to County, making laces upon [st]aves, as Beggars tape, or the like. 1676 (title) Scarron's Comical Romance: or, a facetious history of a company of strowling stage-players..turn'd into English. 1701 D. Defoe True-born Englishman i. 15 The Strolling Bands Of banish'd Fugitives from Neighb'ring Lands. 1709 J. Johnson Clergy-man's Vade Mecum: Pt. II p. cvi This Canon was designed against those strowling Scotch Bishops who Ordained any for Money. 1789 H. L. Piozzi Observ. Journey France I. 432 It put me in mind of Hogarth's strolling actresses. 1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward I. ii. 22 The strolling spearman, half-soldier, half-brigand. 1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) iii. 33 ‘He is a strolling actor,’ said the Lieutenant, contemptuously. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. vii. xi. 404 To lodge there, somewhat in strolling-player fashion. 1863 A. W. Kinglake Invasion of Crimea I. xiv. 222 As though he were dealing with a mere troop of strolling players. < as lemmas |
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