| 释义 |
‖ laquais de place, n. phr. Obs.|lakɛ də plas|
[Fr., lit. ‘place-servant’: see lackey n.]
A manservant temporarily hired during a visit to a foreign city.
1789P. Thicknesse Year's Journey (ed. 3) I. xv. 120 Some laquais de place, who is paid for it, gives the earliest notice to one of the confederacy. 1805P. Beckford Familiar Lett. from Italy I. 259 Boxes are always to be hired..for a few pauls, unless you send your Lacquais de Place who will always cheat you when he can. 1862Thackeray Philip II. ii. 40 Mugford would never consent to have a laquais de place, being firmly convinced to the day of his death that he knew the French language quite sufficiently for all purposes of conversation. 1889W. Fraser Words on Wellington 125 His laquais de place told him..that Marshal Ney was to be shot in the Gardens of the Luxembourg. |