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单词 sham-ancient
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sham-ancient
C1. Prefixed to other adjectives, as sham-ancient, sham-dead, sham-serious, sham-Tudor; also with nouns forming compounds used attributively, as sham-twist.
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1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes v. 303 He who has once seen into this, has seen the difference of the True from the Sham-True.
1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present i. v. 42 It is not governed by the wisest it has..but by the sham-wisest.
1847 C. G. F. Gore Castles in Air (1857) ix. 69 A suite of sham-ancient steam-carved furniture.
1850 T. Carlyle Latter-day Pamphlets i. 26 My Christian friends, and indeed my Sham-Christian and Anti-Christian, and all manner of men, are invited to reflect on this.
1880 E. Maitland in Encycl. Brit. XI. 279/2 A sham-twist [gun-] barrel..[which] has all the appearance of a genuine twisted barrel.
1889 ‘F. Anstey’ Pariah iii. viii The shabby little sham-marble mantle-piece was draped with embroidered cloth.
1909 Nation May 153/2 To this agitation we apply the term sham-serious.
1934 Discovery Oct. 304/1 It cannot be long before the incongruity of the sham-Tudor house with the 1934 interior is generally recognised.
1945 Archit. Rev. Nov. 124/3 Westcombe Park Road..shows an early tendency towards those ornamental features which long afterwards gave the names of ‘sham Tudor’ and ‘Jacobethan’ to a rather pathetic phase in domestic design.
1970 T. Hughes Crow 53 So in one hand he held a sham-dead spider.
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