| 单词 | blue ribboner |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblue ˈribboner blue ˈribboner n. originally U.S. (now historical) (also with capital initials) a person who belongs to a temperance movement, the members of which wear the blue ribbon (sense A. 3); (more generally) a person who abstains from alcohol; a teetotaller. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > abstention from drinking > [noun] > total abstinence > total abstainer water-drinker1440 abstainerc1475 Rechabite1637 drink-watera1641 hydropotist1678 hydropot1727 teetotal1834 teetotaller1834 teetotalist1840 Washingtonian1842 Good Templar1853 teetotalleress1854 blue-ribbonist1858 nephalist1861 total abstainer1862 blue-ribbonite1867 totec1870 Templar1874 blue ribboner1878 total abstinent1882 water butt1882 white ribboner1886 non-drinker1910 pioneer1912 T.T.1922 1878 Daily Rocky Mountain News (Denver) 5 Mar. 4/5 The meeting place of the blue ribboners never looked more cosy or comfortable than last evening. 1935 K. L. Roberts in K. Roberts Reader (2002) xi. 174 American undergraduates are almost blue-ribboners by comparison with Oxford's clubmen and undergraduate drinkers when they let themselves go. 1991 G. Rainbow in C. Macdonald et al. Bk. N.Z. Women 523 She was a member of the Wellington Ladies' Christian Association..and a Blue Ribboner. < as lemmas |
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