| 单词 | literary gent |
| 释义 | > as lemmasliterary gent literary gent n. British colloquial a man, esp. of high social standing, who writes or critiques works of literature; (also) a writer who expresses his literary knowledge in a refined manner. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [noun] > literary man scholarc1600 man of letters1645 literator1710 literarian1740 literary gent1773 literary1801 littérateur1806 1773 Prudential Lovers I. xx. 214 We have resolved to quote no Latin in this history, thereby laying ourselves under the..lash of Messieurs les Critiques; not that we would..insinuate, these literary Gents don't understand the classics. 1850 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis II. xxxiv. 336 Doctor Johnson has been down the street many a time with ragged shoes... You literary gents are better off now. 1937 ‘G. Orwell’ Road to Wigan Pier xii. 243 Ten years ago..the typical literary gent wrote books on baroque architecture. 2004 Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Nexis) 12 Oct. e6 Tom..is a transplant from Britain. He is a literary gent, an expert on the 19th-century novel and a writer of imitation Victorian fiction. < as lemmas |
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