单词 | pantomime dame |
释义 | > as lemmaspantomime dame pantomime dame n. a conventional comic character of a middle-aged woman played by a man and featured in many pantomimes. ΚΠ 1902 in A. E. Wilson Prime Minister of Mirth (1956) iii. 53 Mr. Robey is different. To a stage which for years had been inhabited by pantomime ‘dames’, by the drink comedian, by the lodger and by the lodger's wife he came. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 417 In pantomime dame's stringed mobcap, crinoline and bustle, widow Twankey's blouse..and cameo brooch. 1990 R. Pilcher September xxix. 469 Dressed in enormous evening gowns, all satin and glitter, I looked like a youthful pantomime dame. < as lemmas |
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