| 单词 | penny reading |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspenny reading penny reading n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > a reading > [noun] reading1724 penny reading1859 1859 Suffolk Chron. 13 Sept. (heading) Penny Readings for the Working Classes. 1883 P. E. Gibbons in Harper's Mag. Apr. 661/1 Penny readings are entertainments at which each who enters pays a penny. 1969 Telegraph (Brisbane) 25 Mar. 8/4 The provisional school was used for monthly ‘penny readings’..at that period. 2002 W. Woodruff Road to Nab End (2003) 113 When money was short we went to ‘penny readings’, where we sat on a hard bench in a cold warehouse. < as lemmas |
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