| 单词 | walking gentleman |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswalking gentleman walking gentleman n. (a) Theatre a male actor playing a small part with little or no speaking (cf. sense 7) (historical); †(b) a man who has either no need or no desire for an occupation (obsolete). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > actor > [noun] > actor playing specific type of part > with little or nothing to say property boy1685 supernumerary1755 walking gentleman1769 walking lady1769 figurant1775 statist1807 showgirl?1836 super1838 walker-on1876 property child1885 supe1885 walk-on1923 spear-carrier1960 1769Walking gentleman [see sense 7]. 1794 C. Mathews Let. 14 June in A. Mathews Mem. C. Mathews (1838) I. v. 86 And asked me if I would like to play walking gentleman. 1804 M. Edgeworth Rosanna v, in Pop. Tales II. 148 Soft Simon had reduced himself to the lowest class of Stalkos, or walking gentlemen, as they are termed; men who have nothing to do, and no fortune to support them, but who style themselves esquire. 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. xvi. 263 A d——d cake-house, the resort of walking gentlemen of all descriptions, poets, players, painters, musicians. 1827 J. Barrington Personal Sketches Own Times I. 62 Nothing..could induce me to remain a walking gentleman: and so, every occupation that I could think of having its peculiar disqualification, I remained..in a state of great uncertainty. 1867 G. Smith Three Eng. Statesmen (1882) 130 George III. tried unconstitutional monarchy, first by Lord Bute, a walking-gentleman, and failed. 1927 Times 29 Sept. 15/6 Where Mary enters none but she can hold the centre of the stage. The rest—princes, potentates, powers—become mere walking gentlemen and supernumeraries. 1994 H. Williams Dock Leaves 59 They let the first Walking Gentleman go after only one warning just for lying down between the Acts. < as lemmas |
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