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单词 skull-thatcher
释义

skull-thatcher

English

Noun

skull-thatcher (plural skull-thatchers)

  1. (Britain, slang, obsolete) A maker of straw bonnets.
    • 1828, Cumberland's Minor Theatre (page 5)
      Having been sent to London on a medical trip by his uncle, Mr. Quince, he had become smitten with a fair milliner — a skull-thatcher, anglice, a maker of straw bonnets, but with no more money in her purse than would buy a dose of salts []
    • 1859, J. W. Overton, Harry Hartley; or, Social science for the workers (volume 420, page 29)
      'Which accounts for your frequent attendance, loveliest of skull thatchers!' said Harry in a polite bantering tone, which did not make the intended sarcasm less apparent.

References

  • 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary
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