| 单词 | to play hobby-horse |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto play (the) hobby-horse a. In the morris-dance, and on the stage (in burlesques, pantomimes, etc.), a figure of a horse, made of wickerwork, or other light material, furnished with a deep housing, and fastened about the waist of one of the performers, who executed various antics in imitation of the movements of a skittish or spirited horse; also, the name of this performer in a morris-dance. Hence, to play (the) hobby-horse: also transferred and figurative. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > morris-dance > [noun] > figure of horse hobby-horse1557 hobby1778 society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > morris-dance > [verb (intransitive)] > play hobby-horse to play (the) hobby-horse1557 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > pantomime > [noun] > role or character hobby-horse1557 harlequin1590 play-mare1598 Columbinea1723 clown1727 hobby1778 pantaloon1781 harlequiness1785 Pierrot?1789 pierrette1847 harlequina1867 dobby1879 principal boy1892 principal girl1893 dame1902 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > pantomime > act in pantomime [verb (intransitive)] > play role or character to play (the) hobby-horse1557 hobby-horse1636 harlequinade1823 1557 Churchwardens' Accts. St. Mary's in C. Coates Hist. Reading (1802) 130 Item, payed to the Mynstrels and the Hobbyhorse on May Day 3s. 1569 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1889) IV. 132 Gevyn to tow mynstreles, and to them that did play with ye hoby horse, xijd. 1583 P. Stubbes Anat. Abuses sig. Mii Then haue they their Hobby-horses, dragons & other Antiques. 1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor ii. i. sig. Ev Sbloud you shall see him turne morrisedancer, he ha's got him bels, a good sute, and a Hobbie-horse . View more context for this quotation 1645 J. Milton Colasterion 17 The word Politician is not us'd to his maw, and therupon hee plaies the most notorious hobbihors, jesting and frisking in the luxury of his non-sense. 1684 J. Dryden Epil. Univ. Oxf. in Misc. Poems 266 Your Delight Was there to see two Hobby-horses Fight. 1820 W. Scott Abbot I. xiv. 294 He performed the celebrated part of the hobbie-horse. 1821 W. Scott Kenilworth III. xiv. 275 Captain Coxe..executed..a gambade, the like whereof had never been practised by two-legged hobby-horse. < as lemmas |
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