| 单词 | love in a cottage |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslove in a cottage P10. euphemistic love in a cottage: marriage with insufficient means. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > a marriage > [noun] > viewed as more or less advantageous > marriage with insufficient means love in a cottage1745 1745 C. Coffey Devil upon Two Sticks i. vi. 34 Love in a Cottage contentedly flows, And e'ery dear Minute is blest. 1763 G. Colman Deuce is in Him i. 9 To talk of living on bread and water, and the comforts of love in a cottage. 1812 M. Edgeworth Absentee iv, in Tales Fashionable Life V. 302 Lady Clonbrony had not..the slightest notion, how anybody..could prefer, to a good house..and a proper establishment, what is called love in a cottage. 1878 Scribner's Monthly Dec. 274/1 Young people tried love in a cottage, and dwelt in dove-cotes beside their prouder kinsfolk. 1894 H. H. Gardener Unofficial Patriot 239 Here's more love in a cottage business for you. 1938 W. Empson Eng. Pastoral Poetry i. 55 She had chosen love in a cottage and could stick to it. 1954 J. A. Banks Prosperity & Parenthood viii. 116 George Vavasor, Phineas Finn, and Frank Greystock were not faced with the dilemma of love in a cottage versus luxury in the hall. 2006 Times (Nexis) 1 July 18 A choice between a triumphant return to high finance and love in a cottage. < as lemmas |
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