| 单词 | gaslight era |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgaslight era b. Originally and chiefly U.S. As a modifier, designating the era in which gaslight was in common use; spec. reminiscent, characteristic, or evocative of the (late) 19th cent. Frequently in gaslight era. Cf. Gaslight District n. at Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1897 News & Observer (Raleigh, N. Carolina) 13 Feb. 5/1 The muddy-street and gas-light era has passed; it is a day of asphalt and electricity. 1930 Kingston (N.Y.) Daily Freeman 2 Jan. 13/2 Some people have electric-lighted houses but mentally they are groping about in the gaslight era. 1949 T. Taggart (title) Gaslight gaieties: a complete Gay Nineties variety show. 1952 Pop. Mech. July 39/2 Miniature antique gas buggies... Yes, everyone..gets a thrill out of constructing these ‘souvenirs of the gaslight years’. 1970 Star-News (Pasadena, Calif.) 17 Apr. 9/1 William Jennings Bryan, the silver-tongue orator of the Platte, told the forgotten man of the Gaslight Age that Wall Street couldn't crucify him on a cross of gold. 1985 Salina (Kansas) Jrnl. 29 Dec. (Entertainment section) 6/4 The shopping district of Pasadena's early merchants is being steadily renovated into something of a gaslight quarter of shops, restaurants and galleries called Old Town. 1995 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald Amer. 17 Sept. (Stars Mag.) 3/3 Imagining yourself a gaslight-era gold baron walking by the turn-of-the-century mansions in Pacific Heights. 2004 M. Pye Taking Lives 205 He talked stage talk out of some Victorian gaslight story, because that was the English he knew. < as lemmas |
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