单词 | hidalgo |
释义 | hidalgon. a. In Spain: One of the lower nobility; a gentleman by birth. No one who was not a hidalgo was formerly entitled to the appellative Don. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > aristocracy or upper class > gentry > [noun] > gentleman > foreign hidalgo1594 signor1742 caballero1749 babu1763 signore1820 senhor1830 señor1868 1594 R. Carew tr. J. Huarte Exam. Mens Wits xiii. 220 These haue large liberties and exemptions, as in Spain those gentlemen who are called Hidalgos. 1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 267 The Dons of Spaine, the Monsiers of France..the Hidalgos of Portugal.. and the younger Brethren in England, make a very poore company. 1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 116 Beaten off by fifty Huydalgoes. 1808 W. Scott Let. 20 June (1932) II. 75 There may be some hidalgo amongst the mountains of Asturias with all the spirit of the Cid. 1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto I ix. 7 A true Hidalgo, free from every stain Of Moor or Hebrew blood. 1855 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity IV. ix. vii. 119 An outburst of reprobation..from all the nobles and hidalgos of the kingdom. b. transferred. One like a hidalgo. ΚΠ 1826 H. N. Coleridge Six Months W. Indies 81 In order to..defeat those ingenious hidalgos the monkeys. 1867 C. M. Yonge Six Cushions xi. 90 [He] was a ready-made hidalgo, as he well knew. c. attributive. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > aristocracy or upper class > gentry > [adjective] > of a foreign gentleman hidalgo1838 hidalgoish1847 1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Calderon vi Those hidalgo titles of which your father is so proud. 1866 R. Chambers Ess. 2nd Ser. 82 The old hidalgo idea. Derivatives hiˈdalgoish adj. resembling or characteristic of a hidalgo. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > aristocracy or upper class > gentry > [adjective] > of a foreign gentleman hidalgo1838 hidalgoish1847 1847 B. Disraeli Tancred I. ii. xvi. 327 A..hat a little too hidalgoish, but quite new. hiˈdalgoism n. (also hidalgism) the practice or manners of a hidalgo. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > aristocracy or upper class > gentry > [noun] > gentleman > foreign > practice of a hidalgo hidalgoism1887 1887 Westm. Rev. 1045 Petty princedom and effeminate hidalgoism. 1887 A. Morel-Fatio in Encycl. Brit. XXII. 358/1 His [Cervantes'] main purpose was..to show by an example pushed to absurdity the danger of hidalgism, of all those deplorable prejudices of pure blood and noble race..which..were destined to bring Spain to ruin. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1594 |
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