| 单词 | five-o'clock tea |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfive-o'clock tea five-o'clock n. (see A. 2b), used attributively in five o'clock shadow (see quot.1937), five-o'clock tea (colloquial shortened a five o'clock). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > meal > [noun] > afternoon meal undermealc1440 undern1691 goûter1792 five-o'clock tea1869 merienda1880 the world > life > the body > hair > hair on lower part of face > [noun] bristlea1300 subboscos1579 suberch1592 stubblea1596 whiskerc1600 facial hair1830 face fungus1904 zit1912 five o'clock shadow1937 shrubbery1937 1869 L. M. Alcott Little Women II. x. 143 Mrs. Kirke asked me if I wouldn't go down to the five-o'clock dinner. 1872 Ld. Shaftesbury in E. Hodder Life Earl Shaftesbury (1886) III. 307 Five o'clock tea, that pernicious, unprincipled and stomach-ruining habit. 1882 Worcs. Exhib. Catal. iii. 4 Five o'clock tea sets in fine porcelain. 1886 Punch 16 Jan. 36/2 Ladies invite their friends to ‘a five-o'clock’. 1926 C. Sidgwick Sack & Sugar i. 9 Eva had invited her future in-laws..to five o'clock. 1937 Time 11 Oct. 33/1 (advt.) ‘5 o'clock Shadow’—that unsightly beard growth which appears prematurely at about 5 P.M., looks bad. 1960 O. Manning Great Fortune ii. x. 115 The café..was crowded for the ‘five-o'clock’, which here [i.e. in Bucharest] meant coffee or chocolate, and cakes. 1969 New Yorker 6 Sept. 115/1 Mr. Nixon, however, was given a deep five-o'clock shadow by the Rumanian artist. < as lemmas |
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