单词 | arcades ambo |
释义 | Arcades ambon. Two persons of the same tastes, profession, or character (often derogatory). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > two > pair > [noun] > of people twosomec1480 brace1606 couple1759 duumvirate1771 Arcades ambo1821 duo1887 1821 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto IV xciii. 117 Each pull'd different ways with many an oath, ‘Arcades ambo’, id est—blackguards both. 1882 T. Mozley Reminisc. Oriel II. lxxxiii. 92 [Denison and Neate] were Arcades ambo. They could talk and chaff about anything... They were both good scholars, rather above the Oxford run. 1888 H. R. Haggard Col. Quaritch xvii ‘Well, I'm a lawyer too, and a pretty sharp one—arcades ambo,’ said Johnnie with a coarse laugh. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2018). < n.1821 |
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