| 单词 | sundown rim |
| 释义 | > as lemmassundown rim C1. attributive. U.S. colloquial. Designating the American Midwest or Far West, or a point in this region, as sundown land, sundown rim, etc. Also figurative. ΚΠ 1846 Oregon Spectator 30 Apr. 2/2 We shall soon have to give in our sundown position to some enterprising typo. 1895 Amer. Bee Jrnl. 27 June 412/2 If he persists in going to the ‘Sundown Land’,..no doubt a royal welcome awaits him ‘beyond the Rockies’. 1908 G. B. Russell Four Score & More ii. 19 He was not concerned to learn of the success or results of the pony post to the sundown country. 1948 Sat. Rev. Lit. (U.S.) 15 May 32/3 Pacific Books, a publishing house along the country's sundown rim, has brought out this entertaining book. 1990 G. A. Carrington Comanche War vii. 56 He says somewhere to the west or south of here. The sundown land. 2007 K. Lincoln White Boyz Blues i. 19 As I see it, the frontier ‘out west’ shadows the sundown edge of civilization. < as lemmas |
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