Wardour Streetn.

Brit.

/ˈwɔːdə striːt/,

/ˈwɔːdɔː striːt/, U.S.

/ˈwɔrˌdɔr ˌstrit/

Etymology: < the name of Wardour Street in London, formerly occupied mainly by dealers in antique and imitation-antique furniture.

1. Used attributively in Wardour-street English, applied to the pseudo-archaic diction affected by some modern writers, esp. of historical novels. Also in other attributive phrases.

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Wardour-street English1888

pseudo-archaic1904

1888 A. Ballantyne in Longman's Mag. Oct. 585 (title) Wardour-Street English.

1888 A. Ballantyne in Longman's Mag. Oct. 589 This is not literary English of any date; this is Wardour-Street Early English—a perfectly modern article with a sham appearance of the real antique about it.

1896 Sat. Rev. 8 Feb. 154/2 Our Wardour Street romancers and whimpering Scotch humourists.

1918 Spectator 20 Apr. 422/1 What we are obliged by our sincerity to describe as thoroughly bad, Wardour Street English.

1918 Spectator 20 Apr. 422/2 There are obvious reminiscences of..Ivanhoe in this piece of most unblushing but rather vivid Wardour Street.

1958 L. Forster in Aspects of Translation 20 The peculiar Wardour Street language which some classical scholars used for English a generation or so ago.

1976 New Yorker 19 Apr. 118/3 To the difficulty of following Borgese's Wardour Street diction (‘Bread and wine needs a man to fight and die’; ‘Us enchants he, but eke frightens’) Sessions adds that of hearing the words.

2. Used attributively and absol. with reference to Wardour Street as a centre of the British film industry.

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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > [noun] > films or the cinema > realm of > in other countries

Wardour Street1920

Tollywood1932

Bollywood1969

Lollywood1995

Kollywood1997

Tollywood1999

Kannywood2002

Nollywood2002

Bongo2009

1920 Stage Year Bk. 51 A still more ambitious ‘ten million pound’ company died even before it became more than a Wardour Street fairy tale.

1927 Melody Maker Aug. 818/3 A 'phone message, or note perhaps, from Wardour-street.

1948 Daily Mail 7 Feb. 2/5 This has caused a few long faces in Wardour-street.

1958 Punch 17 Sept. 360/1 Any Wardour Street film-distributor knows that the public wants a boy-girl story, a happy ending..and sensational spectacle.

1975 Times 20 Dec. 9/7 It amazes me how few films we manage to make in a year here: Wardour Street seems to have accepted defeat.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	wardour street
释义	Wardour Streetn. Brit. /ˈwɔːdə striːt/, /ˈwɔːdɔː striːt/, U.S. /ˈwɔrˌdɔr ˌstrit/ Etymology: < the name of Wardour Street in London, formerly occupied mainly by dealers in antique and imitation-antique furniture. 1. Used attributively in Wardour-street English, applied to the pseudo-archaic diction affected by some modern writers, esp. of historical novels. Also in other attributive phrases. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > inelegance > [adjective] > pseudo-archaic Wardour-street English1888 pseudo-archaic1904 1888 A. Ballantyne in Longman's Mag. Oct. 585 (title) Wardour-Street English. 1888 A. Ballantyne in Longman's Mag. Oct. 589 This is not literary English of any date; this is Wardour-Street Early English—a perfectly modern article with a sham appearance of the real antique about it. 1896 Sat. Rev. 8 Feb. 154/2 Our Wardour Street romancers and whimpering Scotch humourists. 1918 Spectator 20 Apr. 422/1 What we are obliged by our sincerity to describe as thoroughly bad, Wardour Street English. 1918 Spectator 20 Apr. 422/2 There are obvious reminiscences of..Ivanhoe in this piece of most unblushing but rather vivid Wardour Street. 1958 L. Forster in Aspects of Translation 20 The peculiar Wardour Street language which some classical scholars used for English a generation or so ago. 1976 New Yorker 19 Apr. 118/3 To the difficulty of following Borgese's Wardour Street diction (‘Bread and wine needs a man to fight and die’; ‘Us enchants he, but eke frightens’) Sessions adds that of hearing the words. 2. Used attributively and absol. with reference to Wardour Street as a centre of the British film industry. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > [noun] > films or the cinema > realm of > in other countries Wardour Street1920 Tollywood1932 Bollywood1969 Lollywood1995 Kollywood1997 Tollywood1999 Kannywood2002 Nollywood2002 Bongo2009 1920 Stage Year Bk. 51 A still more ambitious ‘ten million pound’ company died even before it became more than a Wardour Street fairy tale. 1927 Melody Maker Aug. 818/3 A 'phone message, or note perhaps, from Wardour-street. 1948 Daily Mail 7 Feb. 2/5 This has caused a few long faces in Wardour-street. 1958 Punch 17 Sept. 360/1 Any Wardour Street film-distributor knows that the public wants a boy-girl story, a happy ending..and sensational spectacle. 1975 Times 20 Dec. 9/7 It amazes me how few films we manage to make in a year here: Wardour Street seems to have accepted defeat. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1888
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