| 单词 | carpet-bag government |
| 释义 | > as lemmascarpet-bag government C1. General attributive (in sense 1), as in carpet-bag adventurer, carpet-bag government, carpet-bag rule (U.S. slang): see carpet-bagger n. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > discreditable political activity > [noun] > carpet-bagging carpet-bag rule1857 carpet-bagging1869 carpet-baggism1872 carpet-baggery1884 society > authority > rule or government > politics > discreditable political activity > [adjective] > carpet-bagging carpet-bag1857 carpet-bagging1904 society > authority > rule or government > politics > discreditable political activity > [noun] > carpet-bagging > one who carpet-bag adventurer1857 carpet-bagger1868 1857 Kansas Herald of Freedom (Lawrence) 19 Sept. (Thornton) Early in the spring several thousand excellent young men came to Kansas. This was jokingly called the carpet-bag emigration. 1870 in A. W. Tourgée Invisible Empire (1880) xii. 504 As to the carpet bag members of the Convention..they were thirteen in number. 1874 Fraser's Mag. Aug. 155 The double curse of negro and carpet-bag rule. 1878 N. Amer. Rev. 126 279 A ring composed of carpet-bag adventurers. 1886 A. V. Dicey England's Case against Home Rule 108 The so-called Carpet Bag Governments, that is..the rule of Northern adventurers who were kept in office throughout the South by the Negro Vote. < as lemmas |
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