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单词 puppy play
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puppy play
puppy play n. Chiefly Scottish Obsolete a puppet show (see sense 3a). Cf. poppy-show n.
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1640Puppy play [see sense 3a].
1667 in W. Macgill Old Ross-shire & Scotl. (1909) I. 60 To Jas. and Wm. for seing the puppie play.
1705 in A. W. C. Hallen Acct. Bk. Sir J. Foulis (1894) 413 To the bairns and servants to see the puppie play yisterday... 5s. 0d.
1728 J. Adams Independent Ghost Conjur'd 73 It seems strange that he who very wittily can find a spiritual Meaning in every other Passage of holy Writ, can see nothing like it in these, but impiously dresses up the Covenanting Jews as so many Actors in a Puppy Play.
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