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单词 bell-boy
释义 bell-boy
[bell n.1 1.]
1. A boy who rings a bell.
1851Melville Moby Dick I. xxxix. 274 Eight bells there! d'ye hear, bell-boy?Ibid. III. xxxix. 227 ‘Who art thou, boy?’ ‘Bell-boy, sir; ship's-crier. Ding, dong, ding!’
2. A hotel page-boy. U.S.
1861G. F. Berkeley Eng. Sportsman 366 ‘What are you, then, young fellow?’ ‘I'm bell-boy.’1897Kipling Capt. Cour. ix. 196 Hotel piazzas where the ingenuous young of the wealthy play with or revile the bell-boys.1932E. Wilson Devil take Hindmost xxiii. 245 Glimpses as a bellboy of the luxurious life of the hotel.
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