“link、boy”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

link-boy

释义

ˈlink-boy
[link n.³]
A boy employed to carry a link to light passengers along the streets.
1660Pepys Diary 4 Feb., Thence to Sir Harry Wright's, and after that with a link-boy home.1716Gay Trivia iii. 114 Nor need th' officious Link-Boy's smoaky Light.1739J. Mottley Joe Miller's Jests No. 239 A Link-Boy cry'd, Have a Light, Gentlemen?1837Dickens Pickw. xxxvi, The red glare of the link-boy's torch.1854Thackeray Newcomes I. xvii. 161 Link-boys with their torches lighted the beaux over the mud.
fig.1698Farquhar Love & Bottle iii. i, This is the page, love's link-boy, that must light me the way.

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