| 单词 | to keep a woman |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto keep a woman b. to keep a woman as mistress: to keep a newspaper as a hired organ: cf. kept adj. 1. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > unchaste [verb (transitive)] > keep (a mistress) to keep a woman1560 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. xlix Others kept harlots, & lyued dishonestly. 1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida v. i. 93 They say hee keepes a Troyan drab. View more context for this quotation 1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 36 Giving a box on the ear to a Lord that kept her for a time. 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 276. ⁋3 I am kept by an old Batchelor. 1728 E. Young Love of Fame: Universal Passion (ed. 2) iii. 196 Philander..In secret loves his wife, but keeps her maid. 1895 M. M. Dowie Gallia 114 It was habitual for women to disapprove of a man who kept a mistress. < as lemmas |
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