| 单词 | opera queen |
| 释义 | > as lemmasopera queen opera queen n. slang (a) a female opera singer, a diva; (b) a homosexual man who is fanatical about opera, esp. one characterized as being affectedly haughty and over-refined. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > singer > opera-singer > [noun] > prima donna opera queen1747 prima donna1754 prima1768 first woman1772 prima donna assoluta1854 diva1883 1747 Lady M. W. Montagu St. James' Coffee-house in Six Town Eclogues 9 The opera queens had finish'd half their faces, And city-dames already taken places... The beauties stay till the first act's begun. 1980 Washington Post (Nexis) 8 Dec. b1 Opera queen Beverly Sills shared a table with actor Donald Sutherland. 1980 Maledicta 1979 236 Queen can also be a suffix with or without derogatory overtones: leather queen, nostalgia queen, opera queen. 1994 A. Theroux Primary Colors 134 The hometown rooms of protagonist..Paul, a feminized overaesthetic music freak and ‘opera queen’, later a suicide, have yellow wallpaper. < as lemmas |
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