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ˈnose count
[f. the phr. to count noses (nose n. 6 d).]
An enumeration, esp. of votes; a decision by majority vote. Hence ˈnose-counting vbl. n., assessment by numbers.
1938Life 6 June 22/3 Meantime in London peace-yearning Prime Minister Chamberlain again tried to quarantine the Spanish war by proposing a nose-count and withdrawal of foreign troops. 1951True Police Cases (U.S.) Nov. 42 At nose-counting time in the..hoosegow. 1958Listener 30 Oct. 708/1 Was that nose-counting success due only to some adventitious notion..that Salome is salacious? 1960Times 14 Sept. 12/6 There was much talk just then of the coming ‘Nose Count’ over the U.S.A. which was one way of making their census sound more personal and pointed. 1966Economist 29 Oct. 450/1 The prospects of an effective tightening of Rhodesian sanctions must depend far more on the major powers' real readiness to apply a tighter squeeze than on the nominal nose-count in the Security Council. 1967M. McLuhan Medium is Massage 22 Nose-counting, a cherished part of the eighteenth-century fragmentation process, has rapidly become a cumbersome and ineffectual form of social assessment. |