英语词汇“caste mark”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

caste mark n. a symbol worn by a Hindu, typically made on the forehead with powder or paste, which indicates something about the wearer such as membership of a Hindu sect, devotion to a particular god, or (in the case of a woman) marital status (cf. bindi n., tika n., tilak n.); (more generally) anything regarded as a marker of a person's social status.Such symbols may be associated with particular castes or groups of castes and are often mistakenly believed to be directly indicative of caste.

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1807 Times 12 Jan. Further mischief is apprehended from the order for depriving the Sepoys of their cast marks.

1899 J. Conrad Let. 26 Oct. in E. Garnett Lett. from J. Conrad (1956) 157 I had no idea you wrote for that paper with a horrid caste-mark on its forepage.

1941 C. F. Kirkus Let's go Climbing! xiv. 177 At the temple at Gangotri red caste-marks were put on our foreheads.

2004 T. Khair Bus Stopped 117 The older men with caste marks on their forehead.

2016 Times (Nexis) 20 Jan. 10 If your red front door is a caste mark that invites daily scorn and contempt, why not paint it a different colour?

单词	caste mark
释义	> as lemmas caste mark caste mark n. a symbol worn by a Hindu, typically made on the forehead with powder or paste, which indicates something about the wearer such as membership of a Hindu sect, devotion to a particular god, or (in the case of a woman) marital status (cf. bindi n., tika n., tilak n.); (more generally) anything regarded as a marker of a person's social status.Such symbols may be associated with particular castes or groups of castes and are often mistakenly believed to be directly indicative of caste. ΚΠ 1807 Times 12 Jan. Further mischief is apprehended from the order for depriving the Sepoys of their cast marks. 1899 J. Conrad Let. 26 Oct. in E. Garnett Lett. from J. Conrad (1956) 157 I had no idea you wrote for that paper with a horrid caste-mark on its forepage. 1941 C. F. Kirkus Let's go Climbing! xiv. 177 At the temple at Gangotri red caste-marks were put on our foreheads. 2004 T. Khair Bus Stopped 117 The older men with caste marks on their forehead. 2016 Times (Nexis) 20 Jan. 10 If your red front door is a caste mark that invites daily scorn and contempt, why not paint it a different colour? extracted from casten. < as lemmas
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