| 单词 | plain friend |
| 释义 | > as lemmasplain Friend plain Friend n. a member of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) who adheres to the traditional principle of simplicity of dress, behaviour, and speech. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Quakerism > [noun] > person meeter1646 shaker1648 Quaker1651 friend1656 yea-and-nay1685 trembler1689 Whaker1700 broad-brim1749 plain Friend1774 shad-belly1842 drabman1860 1774 J. Adams Diary 7 Sept. (1961) II. 126 This plain Friend, and his plain, tho pretty Wife, with her Thee's and Thou's, had provided us the most Costly Entertainment. 1890 C. E. Stephen Quaker Strongholds 148 ‘Plain Friends’ are those who are resolved to dress according to the settled principles which commend themselves to their own mind, not enslaving themselves to passing fashions. 1987 Amer. Hist. Rev. 92 15 While ‘plain’ Friends such as the Cadburys were content to remain a ‘peculiar people’ set apart by speech and dress, ‘gay’ Friends abandoned the tradition of the simple life. < as lemmas |
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