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单词 kama sutra
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Kama Sutran.

Brit. /ˌkɑːmə ˈsuːtrə/, U.S. /ˈkɑmə ˈsutrə/
Forms: Also (as one word) Kamasutra.
Etymology: Sanskrit kāma love + sūtra (see sutra n.).
The title of an ancient Sanskrit treatise on the art of love and sexual techniques; hence used allusively.
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Kama Sutra1883
1883 Burton & Arbuthnot Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana 3 In the present publication it is proposed to give a complete translation of what is considered the standard work on love in Sanscrit literature, and which is called the ‘Vatsyayana Kama Sutra’, or Aphorisms on Love, by Vatsyayana.
1883 Burton & Arbuthnot Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana iii. 24 Man should study the Kama Sutra and the arts and sciences subordinate thereto... Even young maids should study this Kama Sutra.
1915 Encycl. Relig. & Ethics VIII. 450/1 The Kāmasūtra permits love matches generally.
1960 ‘S. Harvester’ Chinese Hammer xix. 172 A large illustration of many-armed embrace whose postures owed more to the Hindu Kamasutra than to a depiction of a Tibetan Dukor with his bejewelled shakti.
1961 C. Willock Death in Covert iii. 73 Individual pillars were decorated with some rather questionable designs. Whynne..said: ‘Don't worry. We shall be building an outdoor Espresso Bar..round the most Kama Sutra of those.’
1964 Listener 26 Nov. 848/3 For its delineation of the almost innumerable techniques for handling a locomotive, The Train must be accounted the Kama Sutra of the permanent way.
1970 J. Boland Big Job xii. 100 The things I've taught that girl. Proper little Kama Sutra, I am.
1972 R. Quilty Tenth Session 93 He'll be bursting in any minute. Kama Sutra lips—ready for the last waltz.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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