单词 | lottery cavalier |
释义 | > as lemmaslottery cavalier lottery cavalier n. now rare (historical in later use) (during the reign of Charles II) a poor Royalist officer granted the right to run lotteries. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > lottery or raffle > [noun] > organizers King Ragmanc1450 lottery man1664 lottery cavalier1682 raffler1707 ticket-jobber1737 lottery broker1754 1682 J. Dryden in J. Banks Unhappy Favourite Epil. sig. Lv Not Lott'ry Cavaliers are half so poor. 1889 A. Conan Doyle Micah Clarke (1891) xi. 140 I have heard that some of the lottery cavaliers did well... Well or ill, it was no employment for me. 1901 M. I. Taylor Anne Scarlett xiii. 136 There is no room for a poor gentleman in England unless he would cut as shabby a figure as the late king's lottery cavaliers. < as lemmas |
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