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单词 stoop-gallant
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stoop-gallantn.

Etymology: < stoop v.1 + gallant n. = French trousse-galant, recorded a1590 in Paré Œuvres xxii. v. (1641) 530.The French equivalent is an objective compound of the verb-stem; it is uncertain whether the English word is a compound of the same type, or a phrase with the verb in the imperative and the noun used vocatively. Compare the following quot. 15511551 Loughborough Register in J. Nichols Hist. Leicester (1804) III. ii. 891/2 The Swat, called New Acquaintance, alias Stoupe, Knave, and know thy Master.
1. Something that humbles ‘gallants’; originally, a name for the ‘sweating sickness’; later used gen. Also attributive or adj.
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the mind > emotion > humility > humiliation > [noun] > one who or that which humiliates
stoop-gallant1551
depressor1611
humbler1611
deprimenta1624
putter-down1701
mortifier1801
squabasher1827
humiliator1850
snubber1861
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun] > sweating sickness
swote1481
sweating-sicknessc1503
sweata1517
stoop-gallant1551
stoop knave and know thy master1551
English sweat1552
posting sweatc1553
sweatinga1585
sweating-fever1822
1551 in Gentleman's Mag. (1808) 78 ii. 1057 The hote Sickness, called Stup-gallant.
a1560 T. Hancock in Narr. Reformation (Camden) 82 The posting swet, that posted from towne to towne, throwghe England, and was named stope gallant, for hytt spared none, for ther were dawncyng in the cowrte at 9 a'clocke thatt were deadd or aleven a'clocke.
c1570 J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1830) 81 Thair wes ane seknes universallie in the moneth of September [1510] in Scotland,..it wes callit be the peple stoup galland.
1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Feb. 90 Youngth is a bubble..Whose way is wildernesse, whose ynne Penaunce, And stoopegallaunt Age the hoste of Greeuaunce.
1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) sig. Kii Old cramped sires in their stoupe gallant age.
1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. R4v Comedie vpon Comedie he shall haue... One shal bee called..Stoope Gallant, or The Fall of pride.
1862 F. C. L. Wraxall tr. V. Hugo Les Misérables III. lxvii. 332 Your stoop-gallant is called cholera.
2. Used allusively as verbal phrase.
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a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Surrey 84 His Lordship..enforced them to stoop gallant, and to vail their Bonnets for the Queen of England.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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