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单词 busker
释义 I. busker1|ˈbʌskə(r)|
[f. busk v.1 + -er1.]
One that prepares, attires, dresses, etc.
1568Sir F. Knollys in Cornh. Mag. (1867) 48 She praysed Mystres Marye Ceaton for being the fynest busker, that is to say, the fynest dresser of a womans heade or heare, that is to be seen in any countrye.1819Blackw. Mag. V. 233 His enumeration of the famous fly-buskers of Auld Reekie?
II. busker2|ˈbʌskə(r)|
[f. busk v.2 + -er1.]
One who ‘busks’; an itinerant entertainer or musician.
1857National Mag. II. 167/1 (heading) The Busker..His avocation is strictly peripatetic; and hence he takes his title from the short boot, or ‘buskin’, which has been a common article of stage-apparel..ever since the earliest days of the drama.1859Hotten Dict. Slang, Busker, a man who sings or performs in a public house. Scotch.1908Daily Chron. 1 Sept. 7/4 ‘Buskers’..can be counted as belonging to the most genuine of the professional vagrant fraternity.1951L. MacNeice tr. Goethe's Faust i. 33 Leave me not here a hopeless busker!
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