| 单词 | port-winer |
| 释义 | > as lemmasport-ˈwiner port-ˈwiner n. a person who drinks port habitually; spec. (in plural) a literary dining-club of which Dickens, Thackeray, and others were members. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [noun] > drinking intoxicating liquor > drinking of wine > person grape-monger1606 clareteer1702 Champagne Charlie1868 port-winer1890 winer1906 1890 L. Cattermole in F. G. Kitton Charles Dickens by Pen & Pencil xiii. 178 My elder brother and I nicknamed my father's literary and artistic clique, ‘The Portwiners’, the clique consisting of Dickens, Forster, Thackeray..and other well-known personages. 1920 W. F. Monypenny & G. E. Buckle Life Disraeli V. ii. 67 Beauchamp..warned Disraeli that the High Church party other than ‘the old port-winers’ were holding aloof from the political contest. 1967 C. Hibbert Making of Charles Dickens 224 The ‘Portwiners’, a group of friends including Landseer and Maclise, Macready and Mark Lemon, Forster, Thackeray and Bulwer Lytton. 1990 P. Ackroyd Dickens xxii. 650 These Clapham Rise dinners—celebrated by ‘The Portwiners’, as they called themselves—were apparently very jolly. < as lemmas |
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