Alexandra limp

名词 n.
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英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A limping gait affected by fashionable women in imitation of the then Princess of Wales who had some trouble with a knee.
    — A monstrosity has made itself visible among the female promenaders in Princes Street, viz., “the Alexandra limp!” […] Indeed, one decent woman expressed her pity in an audible “Puir things!” as she passed, but I was enlightened by hearing a pretty girl exclaim to her companion, “Why that’s the Alexandra limp! How ugly!”

词形变化

Alexandra limps plural Alexandrian limp alternative

词源

Named after Alexandra of Denmark (1844–1925), then Princess of Wales, whose limp it imitates.
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