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单词 lottery cavalier
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lottery 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.
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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.
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