Bartholomew baby

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A wooden doll, generally without arms or joints, painted and dressed in current fashions. historical
    — 1667, Roger L'Estrange (translator), The Visions of Dom Francisco de Quevedo Villegas, London: H. Herringman, The Fifth Vision of the World, p. 162, For He could neither Bow, nor move his Hat to any man that saluted him: No, nor so much as turn from One side to the Other; but sate as if He had been Box’d up, like a Bartlemy-Baby.

词形变化

Bartholomew babies plural

词源

From Bartholomew (“because they were sold at Bartholomew Fair in London”) + baby (“doll”).
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