| 单词 | airs and graces |
| 释义 | > as lemmasairs and graces c. airs and graces: (depreciative) affected manners intended to convey a person's elegance, refinement, or (later) superiority; affectations, pretensions. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [noun] > affectation of refinement airs and graces1697 fine-ladyism1799 gentility1821 shabby-gentility1829 gentishness1847 genteelism1849 silver-spoonism1859 posh1915 refainment1933 1697 J. Vanbrugh Æsop i. 24 He made a thousand ugly Faces, Which (as sometimes in Ladies cases) Were all design'd for Airs and Graces. 1705 T. Walker Wit of Woman Prol. sig. A3v New Cullies, (with stale Airs and Graces). 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxxix. 357 Old Sir Pitt..chuckled at her airs and graces, and would laugh by the hour together at her assumptions of dignity and imitations of genteel life. 1877 Galaxy July 124/1 In opera, too, when Mlle. Diva sings, Miss Petrel, the contralto, affects the prima's airs and graces. 1930 in N. Shepherd Weatherhouse iii. 50 The Craigmyle ladies knew better than to be taken in with her airs and graces, that deceived the lesser intellects. 1971 S. Howatch Penmarric (1972) i. iii. 49 She was, after all, only a working-class woman, despite her airs and graces. 2001 J. Boyle Galloway Street 141 Coming here with your airs and graces, calling us tinkers. < as lemmas |
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