| 单词 | joli laid |
| 释义 | > as lemmasjoli laid A woman or girl who is attractive in spite of not being conventionally pretty. Occasionally joli laid /lɛ/, applied to a man. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > attractiveness > [noun] > attractive person > woman > in spite of ugliness jolie laide1894 belle laide1908 1894 Lady Monkswell Diary 12 May in E.C.F. Collier Victorian Diarist (1944) I. 243 Mrs. Flower is a ‘jolie laide’ of about 50, rather charming. 1949 N. Mitford Love in Cold Climate i. viii. 87 One was a beauty or a jolie-laide and that was that. 1960 D. Holman-Hunt My Grandmothers & I i. 6 The lazy young ladies who came to stay were called jolies laides. 1961 Times 10 Oct. 16/1 The arrival in the house..of a jolie-laide innocent looking for the Y.W.C.A. 1966 Observer 20 Mar. 25/4 He has the joli-laid face of a boxer. 1972 Times 22 June 12/5 Sexual teases like jolie-laide Israeli Drora. 1973 R. Rendell Some Lie & Some Die xi. 95 He had an ugly attractive face, joli laid. < as lemmas |
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