单词 | scheherazade |
释义 | Scheherazaden. Used allusively as the type of a (usually young and attractive female) teller of long or numerous stories. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > [noun] > narrator or story-teller tale-tellera1387 talesman?a1505 historian1586 fabulator1604 tales-master1656 narrator1722 spinner1770 storier1816 Scheherazade1851 yarn-spinner1865 yarn-teller1891 yarn-slinger1897 1851 C. Dickens Let. 25 Nov. (1988) VI. 545 My Dear Scheherazade—for I am sure your powers of narrative..must be good for at least a thousand nights and one. 1872 O. W. Holmes Poet at Breakfast-table iii. 87 I had noticed that the Young Girl—the story-writer, our Scheherazade, as I called her—looked as if she had been crying or lying awake half the night. 1896 G. B. Shaw Let. 5 July (1965) I. 634 Or are you only a flattering storytelling Scheherezade? 1946 L. P. Hartley Sixth Heaven i. 4 ‘I'm afraid it will be a long story,’ he said... ‘Waste no time in self-depreciation, Scheherazade, but..take up your tale.’ 1973 G. Butler Coffin for Pandora viii. 192 You're a teller of tales, young lady... Quite a Scheherazade. 1978 M. Puzo Fools Die xxix. 343 During that happy time, a blond Scheherazade, she told me the story of her life. 1981 A. Fraser Splash of Red i. 11 That's another story I shall tell you... I shall be Scheherazade. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1982; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1851 |
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