| 单词 | mb waistcoat |
| 释义 | > as lemmasM.B. waistcoat attributive (chiefly in M.B. waistcoat). Designating a kind of waistcoat with no opening in front, formerly worn by certain Anglican clergymen.Originally (c1840) such waistcoats were worn only by adherents of the Tractarian party, but afterwards they were adopted by many belonging to other schools. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > vestments > outer garments > [noun] > waistcoat M.B. waistcoat1851 1851 T. B. Macaulay Let. 24 Mar. in Sel. Lett. (1982) 244 ‘An M. B. waistcoat!’ said Milman the younger. ‘What does an M. B. waistcoat mean?’ ‘Oh, Sir, all the trade know it by that name.’ ‘But what does it mean?’ ‘The Mark of the Beast, Sir.’ 1853 W. J. Conybeare in Edinb. Rev. Oct. 315 Who does not recognise..the stiff and tie-less neckcloth, the M.B. coat and cassock waistcoat [etc.]. 1876 M. Oliphant Phœbe Jun. (1877) xvi. 114 He smiled superior at the folly which stigmatised an M.B. waistcoat. 1881 E. C. G. Murray Sidelights Eng. Society 102 Her ideal of a hero generally appears in white cravat and an M. B. waistcoat. < as lemmas |
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