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单词 scheherazade
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Scheherazaden.

Brit. /ʃəˌhɛrəˈzɑːd(ə)/, /ʃəˌhɪərəˈzɑːd(ə)/, U.S. /ʃəˌhɛrəˈzɑd/
Etymology: < the name of Scheherazade, the female narrator of the Arabian Nights.
Used allusively as the type of a (usually young and attractive female) teller of long or numerous stories.
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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).
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