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单词 pure merino
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pure merino
b. colloquial (Australian and New Zealand). A person who has chosen to settle in Australia, as opposed to a convict or ex-convict; (hence) a member of a leading family in Australian society; a person of fine breeding or good character. Esp. as pure merino. Now historical.
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pure merino1826
1826 Monitor (Sydney) 24 Nov. 221/2 One of the late petit-jury has this week been committed for compounding felony, and another is expected shortly to be put in the House of Correction... Remember..these are all pure Merinos!
1865 S. Bennett Hist. Austral. Discov. & Colonisation 526 Unwarrantable assumptions of the ‘pure merinos’, as the official or aristocratic class or clique began to be called during Brisbane's time.
1897 Bulletin (Sydney) 23 Jan. 7/2 The University is at present run in the interest of the professors and the pure merinos.
1934 J. C. Lee Boshstralians 15 ‘He was a boss...’ ‘One of the whitest...’ ‘A true merino.’
1936 M. Franklin All that Swagger vii. 69 It was too early to regard Delacy as a deserter,..he was a pure merino who would not abscond from a fine young wife.
1966 G. W. Turner Eng. Lang. in Austral. & N.Z. i. 9 These sterling characters were also known as pure merinos when the sheep industry began to be based on imported merino sheep.
1976 K. Amos New Guard Movement 111 The attempt..to found an hereditary upper house in the New South Wales parliament based on an ‘aristocracy’ of the ‘pure merino’ class.
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