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单词 troll madam
释义

troll madam

English

Noun

troll madam (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of troll-my-dames
    • 1606, William Shakespeare, King Lear:
      Look where he stands and glares. Want'st thou eyes at troll-madam?
    • 1889, G. Alan Lowndes, Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society - Volume 3 chapter=An Inventory of the Household Goods Of Sir Thomas Barrington, Bart., At Hatfield Priory, In 1626, page 157:
      i pr of bellowes
      3 greene carpetts
      i pr brasse snuffers
      i Troll madam
    • 2005, Charles Gidley Wheeler, Armada: A Novel, page 80:
      'As for you,' he went on, pointing his knife at Tristram, 'if you think you can start playing troll-madam under this roof, you can think again, because this is a good Christian household and that's the way I intend to keep it.
    • 2020, H. Sutherland Edwards, Old and New Paris: Volume 2, page 27:
      Delavau, the prefect of police, had permitted him to establish, on the public road, a game known as “troll-madam”; and this game, an excellent trap for boobies and passers-by whose slightest words and actions were keenly watched by Vidoc's hounds, produced, from the 20th of July to the 4th of August, 1823, a net profit of 4,364 francs.
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