| 单词 | rhyming trade |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrhyming trade rhyming trade n. now rare the profession or pastime of writing poetry. ΚΠ 1651 J. Cleveland Poems (Wing C4684) 4 Be dumb ye beggers of the rhiming [1677 rhythming] trade. 1700 S. Wesley Epist. Poetry 28 Not many Poets were for Statesmen made, It asks more Brains than stocks the Rhiming Trade. 1858 P. J. Bailey Age 57 A parliament of poets who'd agree To any set of laws which might be made To fix and tranquillise the rhyming trade. 1910 C. W. Previté-Orton Political Satire in Eng. Poetry iv. 124 Dryden's effect on his contemporaries in the rhyming-trade was so tremendous, that they attacked him in his own words and metre. < as lemmas |
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