单词 | sunday outer |
释义 | † Sunday outern. British. Obsolete. A person (esp. a domestic servant) who is taking his or her Sunday out. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > types of servant > [noun] > other types of servant minstrel?c1225 mill-knavec1380 subdeacona1382 rehetoura1425 daily waiter1519 apparitor1533 Nethinim1535 fealc1650 washpot1678 Sunday outer1837 comprador1840 liveryman1841 running dog1969 1837 Gentleman's Mag. July–Dec. 331/2 Steam required for the propulsion of Sunday-outers in pursuit of pleasure. a1878 C. J. Mathews in C. Dickens, Jr. Life C. J. Mathews (1879) I. i. 30 A couple advanced who evidently did not belong to the usual class of ‘Sunday outers’. 1890 J. C. H. Couvreur In her Earliest Youth I. v. 81 Even the long-enduring filly, obliged to render ignoble submission to the first ‘Sunday-outer’ who comes to her master's stables, feels it incumbent upon her to show off. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.1837 |
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