| 单词 | penny barber |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspenny barber penny barber n. ΚΠ a1704 T. Brown Satire French King (rev. ed.) in Wks. (1730) I. 61 I hope thou'lt in the Friars take a shop, Turn penny-barber [ed. 1707: Puny-Barber] there. 1792 J. Byng Diary 3 July in C. B. Andrews Torrington Diaries (1936) III. 150 I shaved at a barber's shop, a penny barber, who never makes wigs, nor has a shaving-brush in the house. 1873 Times 9 Jan. 10/6 A poor named Tarrant,..a haircutter and penny-barber in the town of Yeovil. 2003 Scripps Howard News Service (Nexis) 27 May (Life Style section) It was not until the 19th century, when advances in manufacturing greatly lowered the cost of razors, that shaving moved from the servants of royalty to the proletariat in the form of penny barbers. < as lemmas |
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