单词 | yellow-plush tribe |
释义 | > as lemmasyellow-plush tribe attributive in the sense ‘of or relating to footmen’, as yellow-plush tribe, etc. Π 1849 Preston Chron. & Lancs. Advertiser 15 Sept. 3/4 An anxious father, of the yellow-plush school, once wrote the following letter to a boarding-school mistress. 1884 Western Mail 12 Jan. 2/9 It is interesting..to find a member of the ‘yellow plush profession’ coming forward in the interest of sanitary reform. 1894 F. C. Baylor Claudia Hyde i. 12 That air of command which flunkeys interpret as a right to ‘lord’ it over the whole yellow-plush tribe. < as lemmas |
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