| 单词 | the very first world |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe very first world 17. Fashionable society; = beau monde n. Similarly in descriptive phrases, as the world of fashion, the fashionable world, etc.; also the polite world (†occasionally the very first world).the great world: see great adj. 16a; half-world (= demi-monde n.): see half-world n. (b) at half adj. Compounds 2. See also Phrases 6b(b) and monde n. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > fashionable society > [noun] higheOE high life?a1518 towna1616 world1618 grand monde1673 society1693 beau monde1712 fine world1740 monde1765 tonc1770 high society1782 fashion1807 all the world1808 society1840 smart set1851 swelldom1854 Fifth Avenue1858 fashionabledom1859 haut monde1864 the big cheesea1910 higlif1911 haute Bohème1925 café society1937 jet set1949 beautiful people1950 1618 H. Fitzgeffrey Certain Elegies sig. F1v Knowest thou yon world of fashions now comes in In Turkie colours carued to the skin. 1673 J. Dryden Marriage a-la-Mode i. i. 12 He talks, too like a man that knew the world To have been long a Peasant. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 15. ¶7 She..fancies her self out of the World, when she is not in the Ring, the Play-House, or the Drawing-Room. 1726 J. Swift Cadenus & Vanessa 20 To know the World! a modern Phrase, For Visits, Ombre, Balls and Plays. 1726 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. Nov. (1966) II. 71 I leave the great World to Girls that know no better. 1750 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 11 June (1932) (modernized text) IV. 1554 The Court is called the world here, as well as at Paris; and nothing more is meant, by saying that a man knows the world, than that he knows Courts. 1763 Brit. Mag. Jan. 14/2 The polite world. 1786 R. Burns Twa Dogs xxii, in Poems 17 To make a tour an' tak a whirl, To learn bon ton an' see the worl'. 1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1779 II. 291 Mr. Beauclerk..told us a number of short stories in a lively elegant manner, and with that air of the world which has I know not what impressive effect. 1791 C. Smith Celestina I. 32 His solicitude to maintain his importance as a man of taste in the fashionable world. 1796 C. Smith Marchmont IV. 280 I saw enough of the lives of people of the very first world. 1853 C. Dickens Bleak House ii. 5 It is but a glimpse of the world of fashion that we want. 1889 ‘J. S. Winter’ Mrs. Bob (1891) ix. 109 I must tell you that the Parish set comprised ‘the world’ of the ancient city. 1929 Amer. Mercury Jan. 96/1 The polite world was full of compliments and abrazos. 1992 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Mar. 231/2 The social life rankled Tatiana's daughter: a wariness of the fashionable world probably colored all of her choices in life. < as lemmas |
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