| 单词 | to see company |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto see company e. to see company: to spend time with other people; esp. to receive visitors.In quot. 1749 (euphemistic): to visit a prostitute. ΚΠ 1621 M. Wroth Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania ii. 211 In this manner I liu'd a while there, neuer seeing company. 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 429. ⁋8 Lady Lydia cannot see Company. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones VI. xvi. ii. 18 He felt the same Compunction with a Bawd when some poor innocent..falls into Fits at the first Proposal of what is called seeing Company. 1761 G. Colman Jealous Wife i. 10 Assert your Right boldly, Man!..see what Company You like; go out when You please; return when You please. 1841 T. Miller Gideon Giles ix. 69 She was shocked to see how cousin William went on ‘when he went out to see company.’ 1848 J. K. Polk Diary 27 Apr. (1910) III. 436 I passed the morning as usual in seeing company. 1921 E. Thorpe Sci. Papers H. Cavendish II. Introd. 4 He lived most abstemiously and seldom saw company. 2008 S. McCarty Promises Reveal 290 Nidia's not up to seeing company. < as lemmas |
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