| 单词 | cold water army |
| 释义 | > as lemmascold water army d. attributive, as in cold water physician; esp. with reference to hydropathy, as cold water cure, cold water treatment, etc.; or (sportively) to the Total Abstinence movement, as cold water army, etc. Also with reference to a dwelling without central heating (U.S.). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatments using water > [noun] > cold water cold water physician1601 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 243 [Asclepiades] brought vp first the allowing of cold water..to sick persons; and took pleasure to be called the Cold-water Physitian. 1807 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 17 323 The cold-water treatment has in our hands been very successful. 1878 tr. H. W. von Ziemssen et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. XIII. 173 The cold-water cure has been much and advantageously employed in diseases of the cord. 1942 M. McCarthy Company she Keeps (1943) v. 187 A cold-water flat in an old-law tenement. 1954 W. Faulkner Fable (1955) 334 A walk-up, cold-water Brooklyn tenement. 1964 W. Markfield To Early Grave (1965) ii. 31 He found himself a cold-water flat near the Village. < as lemmas |
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