| 单词 | milk-woman |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmilk-woman milk-woman n. (a) chiefly Scottish, a woman in milk, a wet nurse; (b) a female vendor of milk. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of provisions > seller of milk > woman milk-wife1444 milk-woman1605 lactary1623 1605 in C. B. Gunn Drumelzier Church (1931) 18 That every brother..use such exquisite trial of the milk-women as is possible. 1618 in W. Fraser Memorials Montgomeries (1859) I. 207 As concerning your dochter Elinor, I am verye glaid that ye haue gottin ane young milk woman to hir, seing hir mamye proued not sufficient. 1635 H. G. Heavens Speedie Hue & Cry 18 One thing more I will commend unto you, the modesty of a milke-woman, in finding him naked, covered him with her approne. 1707 C. Cibber School-boy i. 3 The puppy will play, though he knows no more of the Lay, than a Milkwoman. 1840 F. Marryat Poor Jack ii. 8 Her mother had long scores against the first nobles in the land (she was a milk-woman), and that she had dry-nursed a young baronet. 1847 A. Smith Christopher Tadpole (1848) xl. 338 [The] milkwoman..clanked her pails down. 1921 J. Buchan Path of King x. 195 No sooner was he in Paddington than, after buying a glass of milk from a milk-woman, he set off citywards again. 1993 Daily Tel. 18 Oct. 20/7 The organisers from the National Dairy Council described her awkwardly as a milkwoman. < as lemmas |
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