| 单词 | rowing club |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrowing club a. General attributive (chiefly in sense 2), as rowing blue, rowing club, rowing room, rowing shirt, rowing supper, etc. ΚΠ 1799 I. Weld Trav. N. Amer. xxix. 274 The ‘rowing duet’, which as they sing they mark time to with each stroke of the oar. 1808 Sporting Mag. Apr. 147/2 A set of gentlemen, amateurs of the oar, have formed a Rowing Club, under the title of the Funny Society. 1849 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. xxx. 295 Those ferocious dandies, in rowing shirts and astonishing pins and waistcoats. 1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. xxvi. 264 A stretch of the land-water wide enough to give us rowing-room. 1866 ‘Argonaut’ Arts Rowing & Training 86 The private races of the numerous rowing clubs in the kingdom. 1877 Wandsworth Boro' News 16 Sept. 11/2 The victorious rowing eight..won a gold medal in the world rowing championships in Amsterdam. 1889 F. E. Gretton Memory's Harkback 67 As to these rowing suppers, he would set them down at once. 1923 P. G. Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves xiii. 141 Rather a blood. Got his rowing-blue and all that. 1987 X. Hollander Happy Hooker (rev. ed.) ii. 28 I joined the snooty rowing club, just so that I could catch a glimpse of her. 2007 K. Munson Wyandotte v. 115 (caption) The rowing shirts' insignia identifies the team during races as the ‘Y&’ crew. < as lemmas |
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