| 单词 | white ribboner |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswhite ribboner white ribboner n. a person who wears a white ribbon as a symbol of temperance; a teetotaller. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > abstention from drinking > [noun] > total abstinence > total abstainer water-drinker1440 abstainerc1475 Rechabite1637 drink-watera1641 hydropotist1678 hydropot1727 teetotal1834 teetotaller1834 teetotalist1840 Washingtonian1842 Good Templar1853 teetotalleress1854 blue-ribbonist1858 nephalist1861 total abstainer1862 blue-ribbonite1867 totec1870 Templar1874 blue ribboner1878 total abstinent1882 water butt1882 white ribboner1886 non-drinker1910 pioneer1912 T.T.1922 1886 Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago) 17 July 15/1 She is a strong white ribboner. 1887 Voice (N.Y.) 15 Dec. 2/2 Brother Finch endeared himself to all White Ribboners. 1915 Nevada State Jrnl. 15 July 1/2 (headline) Mother of suffrage scores dry workers[;] ‘pussy wussy white ribboner sisters of virtue’ is term applied . 1974 Daily Tel. 3 July 17/7 The National British Women's Total Abstinence Union, which has 6,000 members, still issues a white ribbon bow in the form of a badge to its followers, who are known as the ‘white ribboners’. 1991 A. Blair More Tea at Miss Cranston's xix, in Miss Cranston's Omnibus (1998) 440 I was a Little White Ribboner of the British Women's Temperance Association. < as lemmas |
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