单词 | teacup-and-saucer comedy |
释义 | > as lemmasteacup-and-saucer comedy d. attributive. teacup-and-saucer comedy, comedy of a mild and ‘proper’ character. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > a comedy > other types of comedy Old Comedy1529 New Comedy1542 comedy of errors?1595 romantic comedy1748 musical comedy1765 comédie larmoyante1773 sketch1789 serio-comedy1808 vaudeville1827 teacup-and-saucer comedy1842 satyr play1845 Restoration comedy1866 zarzuela1888 situation comedy1893 sex comedy1915 sitcom1956 1842 Ld. Tennyson Talking Oak xvi, in Poems (new ed.) II. 68 Beauties, that were born In teacup-times of hood and hoop, Or while the patch was worn. 1895 Athenæum 8 June 748/2 ‘Tea-cup-and-saucer comedy’..was the invention of Thomas Purnell. 1898 Westm. Gaz. 30 Mar. 2/3 A little too much like..the tea-cup business of Alice in Wonderland. 1902 Daily Chron. 23 Sept. 3/3 Young girls..find a gentle interest in her mild heroics of tea-cup-and-saucer comedy. < as lemmas |
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