单词 | regency buck |
释义 | > as lemmasRegency buck Regency buck n. a rakish or extravagantly fashionable or sociable man of the British Regency period; (hence generally) any man of this type; cf. buck n.1 2b. ΚΠ 1859 Once Week 1 Oct. 272/2 A stout old gentleman..with a general savour of the Regency buck about him, decking the window of a St. James's Street club. 1911 ‘L. Melville’ Some Aspects of Thackeray vii. 156 The second marquis was a notorious roué, whereas his son, the third marquis, was nothing out of the way in this attribute—for a Regency buck. 1984 F. Tuohy Coll. Stories 368 The dashing Regency Buck of past years had come to suggest a retired jockey too fond of the bottle. 2004 Times Lit. Suppl. 27 Aug. 6/3 Essentially a Regency buck of a cheerfully amoral disposition in his private life.., he became the epitome of mid-Victorian Britain and the hero of the sober and serious. < as lemmas |
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