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单词 to make a cheese
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to make (also perform) a cheese
P3. to make (also perform) a cheese [compare French faire des fromages, lit. ‘to make cheeses’ (1839 or earlier in this sense)] : to turn round rapidly and then suddenly sink down so that the petticoats are inflated in the shape of a round cheese. Hence also: to create this effect by curtsying; to curtsy deeply. Now rare.
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > respect > respect or show respect [verb (intransitive)] > bow, kneel, or curtsey
loutc825
abowOE
bowa1000
kneel?a1000
kneec1000
crookc1320
to bow the knee1382
inclinec1390
crouchc1394
croukc1394
coucha1500
plya1500
to make or do courtesy1508
beck1535
to make a (long, low, etc.) leg1548
curtsya1556
dopc1557
binge1562
jouk1567
beckon1578
benda1586
humblea1592
vaila1593
to scrape a leg1602
congee1606
to give the stoop1623
leg1628
scrape1645
to drop a curtsy1694
salaam1698
boba1794
dip1818
to make (also perform) a cheese1834
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > other children's games > [verb (intransitive)] > girls'game
to make (also perform) a cheese1834
1834 T. De Quincey Sketches Life & Manners in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 26/1 What more reasonable thing could she do than amuse herself with..making cheeses.
1858 W. M. Thackeray Virginians I. xxii. 174 It was such a deep ceremonial curtsey as you never see at present. She and her sister both made these ‘cheeses’ in compliment to the new-comer, and with much stately agility.
1881 W. Besant & J. Rice Chaplain of Fleet II. iv. 85 Spinning round like a school-girl when she makes cheeses.
1883 L. Wingfield Abigel Rowe II. vi. 157 Miss Knight performed a cheese worthy almost of Caroline, and swept away.
1907 M. Sidney Five Little Peppers in Little Brown House v. 116 Phronsie, who always wanted to make cheeses when very happy, would puff out, without a bit of warning, the skirt of her little pink calico gown.
1927 Times 27 Oct. 15/5 The brightly coloured hooped skirts of the women—of the sort that make ‘cheeses’ in curtseying.
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