| 单词 | twopence coloured |
| 释义 | > as lemmastwopence coloured c. twopence coloured adjectival phr.: originally with reference to prints of characters for toy theatres that were sold in the early nineteenth century at one penny (1d) for black and white ones and two pennies (2d) for coloured ones; hence, excessively theatrical; cheap and gaudy. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > flashiness or gaudiness > [adjective] > tawdry tinsel1595 gingerbread1631 tawdry1676 frippish1787 tinselly1811 specious1816 gingerbready1845 foofaraw1848 twopence coloured1859 tarty1918 tartish1929 tatty1940 society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > other toys > [adjective] > of toy theatres twopence coloured1859 1859 G. A. Sala Twice round Clock 253 The Scala..with its rabbit-hutch-like private boxes, whose doors are scrawled over with the penny plain and twopence coloured-like coats of arms of the..Lombardian nobility. 1879 R. L. Stevenson Trav. with Donkey 82 If landscapes were sold, like the sheets of characters of my boyhood, one penny plain and twopence coloured, I should go to the length of twopence every day. 1887 Art Jrnl. Apr. 105/1 Picturesque melodrama..has given place to every-day drama..unsusceptible of twopence coloured treatment. 1908 E. Terry Story of my Life x. 243 I never cared much for Henry [Irving]'s Mephistopheles—a two-pence coloured part, any way. 1911 G. K. Chesterton Innocence of Father Brown xi. 304 It was a twopence coloured sort of incident. 1926 W. de la Mare Connoisseur & Other Stories 311 My American adventure..is of the ‘twopence coloured’ variety, rather than the ‘penny plain’. 1932 Notes & Queries 27 Feb. 151/2 I have two very unusual specimens of the twopence coloured. They..have very little brush~work, being decorated in every possible part with foil of different colours. 1948 Eng. Stud. I. 95 The Rape of Heraclide is a magnificent specimen of the ‘twopence coloured’ style. 1966 A. L. Coburn Autobiogr. iv. 48 The toy theatre of Stevenson's childhood and mine. A penny plain and twopence coloured. 1968 Economist 9 Nov. p. v/1 Almost too much painful detail, which is of no intrinsic interest except by double proof of the horror of the whole; and perhaps slightly twopence-coloured; but brilliantly readable. 1978 Guardian Weekly 24 Sept. 20/3 A penny-dreadful dramatisation..that has been bumped up into a tuppence-coloured theatrical event by sheer production values. < as lemmas |
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