单词 | parlour skate |
释义 | > as lemmasparlour skate parlour skate n. now historical a roller-skate which can be used indoors. ΚΠ 1860 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) 22 Dec. 314/2 The Sublime and the Ridiculous. Old Father Christmas trying to get up-stairs on Parlor Skates. 1897 Harper's Mag. Jan. 281/2 The second class of visitors skim through the galleries and the churches of Rome as if on parlor-skates. 1998 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 19 Sept. b6 One simple form of the new [roller] skates [was]..‘nothing more than a stock of wood (a foot-rest) leather-bound and brass-tipped at heel and toe, and carried on four small wheels’... Another name for them was ‘parlour skates’. < as lemmas |
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