| 单词 | old issue |
| 释义 | > as lemmasold issue old issue adj. U.S. History freed from slavery before the American Civil War (1861–5). ΚΠ 1879 A. W. Tourgée Fool's Errand xvii. 87 Robert..was..an ‘old-issue free nigger’ (freed before the war). 1899 C. W. Chesnutt Wife of his Youth 214 Wright came of an ‘old issue’ free colored family, in which though negro blood was present in an attenuated strain, a line of free ancestry could be traced beyond the Revolutionary War. < as lemmas |
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