| 单词 | noble art |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnoble art noble art n. (with the) boxing (cf. noble science n.). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > boxing > [noun] defence1549 pugilation1656 fencing1692 boxing1693 the (noble, also manly) art of self-defence1724 noble art1749 bruising1750 ring1770 noble science1778 pugilism1788 sparring1797 the sweet science1810 the fancy1820 pugilistics1820 pugnastics1830 fista1839 scrapping1891 ring-work1899 no contest1922 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones I. iii. iv. 174 Tom was much his Superior at the noble Art of Boxing. View more context for this quotation 1788 T. Cockaine (title) The complete art of boxing..to which is added the general history of boxing, containing an account of the most eminent professors of that noble art. 1870 C. Dickens Edwin Drood xvii. 129 In these last particulars the Professors of the Noble Art were much nobler than the Professors of Philanthropy. 1987 Independent 16 Dec. 28/7 (heading) Ken Jones discovers a heavyweight among the literature of the noble art. < as lemmas |
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