| 单词 | cakewalker |
| 释义 | > as lemmasˈcakewalker ˈcakewalker n. a person who competes or performs in a cakewalk (sense 1a); a person who dances a cakewalk (sense 1c). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > African-American dancing > [noun] > dancer cakewalker1878 1878 St. Louis (Missouri) Globe-Democrat 11 Aug. 12/1 He..took lessons in graceful walking from a scientific ‘Cake Walker’, and in short Sam soon acquired all the lofty bearing and ease of a prince. 1898 B. Williams & G. Walker Let. 16 Jan. in J. W. Johnson Black Manhattan (1930) x. 105 We, the undersigned world-renowned cake-walkers..hereby challenge you to compete with us in a cake-walking match. 1957 M. Moore Let. 25 Jan. in Sel. Lett. (1997) 537 But done with a grace and sense of timing that no old time cakewalker could surpass. 2016 M. Pugh Amer. Dancing 23 Amateur white European cakewalkers were imitating professional black American cakewalkers, who were imitating white minstrel cakewalkers imitating black slaves imitating their masters, who were unable to recognize that they were being mocked. < as lemmas |
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