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单词 hochgeboren
释义 hochgeboren, a. and n.|ˈhoˈxgəˌboːrən|
Also hochwohlgeboren.
[Ger.]
A. adj. = high-born a.
B. n. A high-born person; such people collectively.
1905M. A. von Arnim Princess Priscilla's Fortnight i. 7 Was she not a hochgeboren, a member of an ancient house?1930W. S. Maugham Cakes & Ale iii. 38 She was a simple old lady..but she had not..forgotten that she was hochwohlgeboren.1933D. C. Peel Life's Enchanted Cup xviii. 238 The German ladies..were convinced that we had forced Germany to go to war, and the Hochgeboren..felt bitter towards us.1949O. Nash Versus 139 Do not overlook the fact, hoch-geboren Bretheren and Sisteren.1951J. C. Fennessy Sonnet in Bottle v. v. 173 He probably thinks he's as hochgeboren as the half-caste descendant of an English knight and a Peruvian D.P.1972‘J. Melville’ Ironwood v. 74, I am hoch geboren, as my stuffy German grandaunts still like to put it.
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