单词 | venture-girl |
释义 | > as lemmasventure-girl 10. venture-girl, venture-miss, a girl or woman who goes to India in order to get a husband (both now Historical). ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > seeking marriage > [noun] > attempt to gain husband > one who > by going to India venture-girl1825 1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. II. 287 It was a rule in the carnal bazar of Bengal for Venture-Misses to take the first man who proposed. 1836 T. Hook Gilbert Gurney III. 107 Mrs. Nubley was a venture girl from England. < as lemmas |
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