单词 | tobacco road |
释义 | > as lemmasTobacco Road Tobacco Road n. the title of a novel (1932) and play by Erskine Caldwell, used allusively with reference to conditions of extreme poverty, esp. in rural districts of the southern U.S. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > poverty > [noun] > extreme poverty or destitution nakedness1526 starkness1544 beggary1581 destitutiona1600 primary poverty1901 down-and-outness1907 Tobacco Road1937 1937 Harper's Mag. Nov. 566/1 Nobody in his senses wants slums, Tobacco Roads, and undernourished, ragged schoolchildren in a land of potential economic plenty. 1961 Carolina Q. Spring 18 It seems that only in today's Southern fiction does Tobacco Road..continue to live—but only as a weary, overexploited phantom. < as lemmas |
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