| 单词 | sprunking glass |
| 释义 | > as lemmassprunking glass The action of beautifying or adorning oneself. Chiefly (and in earliest use) attributive, esp. in sprunking glass: a mirror.Quots. 1827, 1888, and 2005 are from historical novels set in the 17th or 18th centuries. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > [noun] tiffing?c1225 hightinga1387 prickinga1425 perching?1578 pranking1580 primpingc1590 sprunkinga1685 prinking1687 smugging1736 titivation1805 beautifying1836 prink1869 dolling1906 makeover1966 a1685 M. Evelyn Mundus Muliebris (1690) 6 The Pocket Sprunking Looking-Glass. a1685 M. Evelyn Fop-dict. 19 in Mundus Muliebris (1690) The Table, Toilet, or Pocket Sprunking-Glass. a1685 M. Evelyn Fop-dict. 21 in Mundus Muliebris (1690) Sprunking, a Dutch term for Pruning, Tiffing, Trimming, and setting out, by the Glass or Pocket Miroir. 1827 H. Smith Reuben Apsley I. vi. 179 He offered his sprunking glass to the disordered baronet. 1888 M. A. Fleming Midnight Queen ix. 145 In one hand she held a small mirror, or, as it was then called, a ‘sprunking-glass’, in which she was contemplating her own beauty. 2005 M. Lovric Remedy iii. iii. 164 In the corridor I seized my pocket sprunking glass and checked the freshening effect of singing upon my complexion. < as lemmas |
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