| 单词 | seaside postcard |
| 释义 | > as lemmasseaside postcard seaside postcard n. (also seaside picture-postcard) a postcard of a type commonly sold at the seaside, spec. one featuring a lewdly humorous or vulgar cartoon. ΘΠ society > communication > correspondence > letter > card > [noun] card1596 message card1746 birthday card1797 view card1822 acceptance1837 Easter card1842 wedding-cards1847 comic1860 postcard1869 letter card1870 postal card1870 pc1876 postal1877 note-card1884 photo card1890 greeting-card1898 picture postcard1899 seaside postcard1955 sympathy card1967 1909 East Anglian Daily Times 21 July 6/5 Witness selected an ordinary sea-side postcard. 1910 Punch 7 Sept. 163 The most up-to-date seaside picture postcards have, we hear, the words, ‘Still raining’, printed on them, to save the correspondent unnecessary trouble. 1957 R. Hoggart Uses of Literacy i. ii. 31 The fifty-year-old formality of seaside postcards: most of the year ‘decent’ working-class people would hardly approve of them, but on holiday they are likely to ‘let up a bit’ and send a few to friends—cards showing fat mothers-in-law and fat policemen, weedy little men with huge-bottomed wives, ubiquitous bottles of beer and chamber-pots. 2019 Evening Standard (Nexis) 4 Sept. 13 The saucy seaside postcards by the artist Donald McGill, with their naughty wordplay and myriad depictions of busty women. < as lemmas |
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