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单词 bristol compliment
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Bristol compliment
3. A complimentary gift, a present, gratuity. to make one a compliment of (a thing). archaic or dialect. Bristol compliment (see quot. 1854).
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the mind > possession > giving > gift or present > [noun]
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1722 London Gaz. No. 6101/2 The Prince..made a Compliment of his Horse and Furniture to the Collonel.
1758 R. Griffiths Descr. Thames 36 It was..the Residence of the Princess Anne..the Duke of Sommerset having made her a Compliment of it.
1789 in J. A. Picton City of Liverpool: Select. Munic. Rec. (1886) II. 266 The compliment he expects for the plans already furnished.
1812 Examiner 21 Sept. 606/1 The Verger..said ‘he expected a compliment’.
1854 Notes & Queries 1st Ser. 9 541/1 A present made of an article that you do not care about keeping yourself is called ‘a Bristol Compliment’.
1860 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 3) Compliment, a present. South-Western.
figurative.1702 in W. S. Perry Hist. Coll. Amer. Colonial Church: Virginia (1870) I. 70 Englishmen..will never more become very apt to make a Compliment to their Princes Prerogative of their English Libertys.1762 Fielding's Jonathan Wild i. i, in Wks. II. 238 Nothing is more usual with writers, who find many instances of greatness in their favourite hero, than to make him a compliment of goodness into the bargain.
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