单词 | sunday face |
释义 | > as lemmasSunday face Sunday face n. (a) a solemn, somewhat sanctimonious expression; (b) Irish English a happy face (rare). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [noun] > affectation in looks or gestures > instance of > affectedly solemn face Sunday face1600 1600 T. Dekker Old Fortunatus sig. H2 If you thinke but a crabbed thought of me, the spirit that caried you in mine armes through the ayre, will tell me all: therefore set your Sunday face vpont. 1680 J. Speed Batt upon Batt 5 He's sally'd out from sign of Pole and Bason, With Clergy-Cloak, clean Band, and Sunday-face on. 1756 M. Calderwood Lett. & Jrnls. (1884) iii. 86 You would take them for so many Seceders, they put on such a Sunday face, and walk as if they would not look up. a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 279 Wi' pinch I put a Sunday's face on, An' snoov'd awa' before the Session. 1906 E. Dyson Fact'ry 'Ands xiii. 165 His Trowsis had er slitherin' chin, 'n' ther Sunday face iv er sick sheep. 1909 J. R. Ware Passing Eng. Victorian Era 237/1 Sunday face (Irish), holiday countenance. 1987 Z. Wicomb You can't get Lost in Cape Town (2000) 176 It is the stern Sunday face of the deacon that passes before me. < as lemmas |
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