单词 | tea-tabling |
释义 | > as lemmasˈtea-tabling ˈtea-tabling n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > weakness or feebleness > [noun] > trivializing trivializationa1866 tea-tabling1962 1962 Times Lit. Suppl. 22 June 460/4 Certain critics have made far too much of Mr. Forster's ‘tea-tabling’ and of his casual sudden deaths. 1977 Times Lit. Suppl. 28 Jan. 97/2 Christina Rossetti's oblique treatment of detail is an early case of what Isherwood, discussing Forster in Lions and Shadows, calls ‘tea-tabling’, the novel's lyrical domestication of disaster. < as lemmas |
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