| 单词 | cloak and sword |
| 释义 | > as lemmascloak and sword cloak and sword adj. [translating Spanish (comedia) de capa y espada] designating or pertaining to dramas or stories of intrigue and romantic or melodramatic adventure, in which the principal characters are taken from that class of society which formerly wore cloak and dagger or sword. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > [adjective] > melodrama melodramatic1789 cloak and sword1806 melodramic1835 cloak and dagger1841 Adelphi1883 lyceum1898 transpontine1901 Grand Guignolesque1908 Grand Guignolish1908 1806 Ld. Holland Lope 126 Comedias de Capa y Espada, Comedies of the Cloak and Sword, from the dresses in which they were represented. 1840 Longfellow in Life (1886) I. 353 In the afternoon read La Dama Duenda of Calderon—a very good comedy of ‘cloak and sword’. 1876 Encycl. Brit. IV. 660/2 Calderon's comedies of intrigue, the so-called ‘comedies of cloak and sword’. 1893 H. B. Clarke Spanish Lit. 163 The play of the ‘cloak and sword’..may almost be said to be his [sc. Lope de Vega's] own invention. 1893 H. B. Clarke Spanish Lit. 220 The stock characters, the galán and dama, the gracioso and barba of their ‘sword and cloak’ plays. 1921 H. Walpole Young Enchanted 42 The Cloak and Sword Romances. < as lemmas |
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