单词 | bas bleu |
释义 | bas bleun. Obsolete. A ‘blue-stocking,’ a literary lady. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > pedantry > [noun] > female pedant, blue-stocking blue-stockinger1780 blue1781 pedantess1784 bas bleu1786 bluestocking1786 society > education > learning > learner > [noun] > one who studies > blue stocking blue1781 bas bleu1786 bluestocking1786 cerulean1821 1786 H. More Bas Bleu in Florio 67 Or how Aspasia's parties shone, The first Bas-bleu at Athens known. 1788 H. Walpole Let. 12 July (1961) XXXI. 271 You have gratified my self-love so amply in your ‘Bas Bleu’. 1808 Miss Talbot's Lett. Introd. 15 The appellation which the company that assembled at her [Mrs. Vesey's] house acquired of the Bas bleu. 1812 Dramat. Censor for 1811 360 Lady Bab Blue is a literary woman of fashion, and a vestige of the Bas bleu club. 1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto IV (Pierpont Morgan) cxii, in Wks. (1837) 651 By measuring the intensity of blue..I'll back a London 'Bas' against Peru. 1842 Times 2 Sept. 2/6 The aristocratic bas-bleus are at present very much devoted to the abolition of slavery. Derivatives bas-ˈbleuism n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > pedantry > [noun] > female pedant, blue-stocking > condition of being blueism1795 blue-stockingship1818 blueness1847 bas-bleuism1871 1871 J. C. Young Mem. C. M. Young I. v. 200 They are utterly devoid of pedantry, or Bas-Bleu-ism, or any other ism. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2019). < n.1786 |
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