| 单词 | rus-in-urbe-ish |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrus-in-ˈurbe-ish rus-in-ˈurbe-ish adj. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town and country > [adjective] > rural scene created in city rus-in-urbe-ish1759 1759 T. Gray Let. 24 July in Corr. (1971) II. 631 I am now settled in my new territories commanding Bedford gardens, and all the fields as far as Highgate and Hampstead..so rus-in-urbe-ish, that I believe I shall stay here. 1793 E. D. Clarke Tour S. Eng. iii. 144 There is, to use an expression of Gray's, something so rus-in-urbe-ish in the whole of it [sc. the Crescent], that I would chuse a house in that edifice, when compared with one in the Circus. 1850 Southey's Common-place Bk. 3rd ser. 86/2 Gray's rus-in-urbe-ish situation near the Museum. 1936 London Topographical Rec. 17 63 The rus-in-urbe-ish character of Bloomsbury. < as lemmas |
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