| 单词 | pensioner-poverty |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspensioner-poverty C1. General attributive, as †pensioner guide, pensioner-poverty, etc. ΚΠ 1711–12 R. Steele Spectator No. 326. ⁋2 A Band of Pensioner-Matrons, and an old Maiden Relation. 1849 D. Wordsworth Loving & Liking in W. Wordsworth Poet. Wks. I. 290 Long may you love your pensioner mouse, Though one of a tribe that torment the house. 1856 J. Ruskin Harbours of Eng. Pref. My pensioner guide..at Greenwich Hospital. 1902 Chambers's Jrnl. July 425/1 Any trout-rod, even after a brief life spent in such a manner, might have accepted its pensioner peg on the rod-stand. 1988 J. Frame Carpathians xiv. 81 To raise funds for the old people to buy their pensioner flats. 2003 Independent 1 Sept. 6/3 The report warns that the ‘new oldies’ will be less accepting of pensioner poverty than those before them. < as lemmas |
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