| 单词 | ticket-of-leave woman |
| 释义 | > as lemmasticket-of-leave woman attributive and in other combinations (hyphenated), as ticket-of-leave holder, ticket-of-leave man, ticket-of-leave woman. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prisoner > [noun] > released > conditionally ticket-of-leave man1807 ticket-of-leave holder1837 ticket-of-leaver1852 ticket-of-leave woman1871 1807 Hist. Rec. New S. Wales (1898) VI. 292 A considerable injury to the colony had crept in: that of ticket-of leave [hyphenation sic] men—men that were taken off the stores, and permitted to work for themselves. 1837 J. D. Lang Hist. Acct. New S. Wales I. 411 The overseer, on well-regulated farms, is generally a ticket-of-leave man or emancipated convict. 1837 J. D. Lang Hist. Acct. New S. Wales II. 19 A ticket-of-leave holder..is confined to a particular district, and is liable to lose his ticket for various petty misdemeanours. 1862 London Rev. & Weekly Jrnl. 30 Aug. 178 A great proportion of these crimes were committed by ‘Ticket-of-leave Men’. 1871 Daily News 25 July In one of the..most fashionable districts of London many hundreds of domestic servants are ticket-of-leave women. < as lemmas |
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