| 单词 | wardour-street english |
| 释义 | > as lemmasWardour-street English 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. < as lemmas |
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