| 单词 | red lamp |
| 释义 | > as lemmasred lamp red lamp n. a lamp with red glass, used (a) †as the sign of a doctor (obsolete) (b) as the sign of a brothel (in later use, chiefly attributive; cf. red light n. 2). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical services and administration > [noun] > signs of medical services red lamp1785 red cross1866 society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > brothel > sign of brothel red lamp1785 red light1891 red lantern1909 1785 Times 22 Oct. 2/1 (advt.) A Red Lamp over the Door [of a doctor's establishment]. 1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist I. xiv. 225 I saw her look towards his [sc. a surgeon's] infernal red lamp. 1846 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 595/1 Almost any serial will give hints enough to an acute boy, [and]..guide him to the door with the red lamp. 1927 W. E. Collinson Contemp. Eng. 96 The red lamp as the sign of a ‘maison tolérée’. 1962 H. Myers tr. B. Pingaud Holland 51 The dirty little canals near the harbour in the ‘red lamp’ district. 1994 E. L. Doctorow Waterworks 17 Greene Street was known for its prostitutes—a red-lamp street. < as lemmas |
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