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单词 cabotinage
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cabotinagen.

/ˈkabətɪnɑːʒ/
Etymology: French, < cabotin strolling player, perhaps ultimately < caboter to coast, because of the resemblance between players who travel from town to town and coasting vessels.
The life or behaviour characteristic of low-class actors, with implication of ‘playing to the gallery’.
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cabotinage1894
cabotinism1926
1894 Nation (N.Y.) 22 Mar. 211 We can find the spirit of ‘cabotinage’..even in the Church.
1895 Daily News 9 May 6/2 Dickens, yielding..to his native cabotinage, descended so low as to give readings from his own books!
1895 Daily News 9 May 6/2 We cannot..blame the undeniable cabotinage of the great Napoleon.
1921 Times Lit. Suppl. 29 Sept. 626/2 In the narrow life of cabotinage there is little scope for originality.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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