| 单词 | little season |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslittle season little season n. now chiefly historical a period of the winter traditionally adopted by the upper echelons of society for a series of fashionable events, especially in London or Washington, D.C. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > [noun] > social season season1709 little season1901 1901 Acad. & Lit. 9 Nov. 446 The ‘Little Season’, which London sees in November. 1916 Munsey's Mag. Mar. 296/2 This is what we call the ‘little season’. Congress..convenes..on the first Monday in December, and from then until the 1st of January, when the real season begins, there is the little season. 1938 Burlington Mag. Feb. p. xvii/1 Highly successful sales..in the so-called ‘little season’ which ended just before Christmas. 1959 J. Fleming Miss Bones xiv. 150 This..is the Little Season, as it's known. There are numerous Embassy parties..first nights at the theatres..and what have you. 1993 B. W. Cook Eleanor Roosevelt I. ix. 211 She single-handedly rescued the ‘little season’ by planning a Halloween dance at Rauscher's to benefit the American Hospital at Neuilly. < as lemmas |
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