Belgravian
名词 n.
形容词 adj.
英文释义
名词 n.
- A resident of Belgravia, London.
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A member of the fashionable or aristocratic society assumed to reside in Belgravia.
— The haughty Belgravians, the aristocracy of rank, are greatly shocked at the bad manners of the aristocracy of wealth, the Barings and Rothschilds of the city, and earnestly entreat all "respectable" strangers at Prince Albert's fair to bear it ever in mind that London City is not London Town!
形容词 adj.
- Of or pertaining to Belgravia, London.
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Of or pertaining to the fashionable or aristocratic life; fashionable, aristocratic.
— Many of the social figures in England, male and female, especially a very Belgravian mother, Lady Clarice, are deftly drawn ; but the coloured desperado, who fails in his attack on his brother, is a little crude.
词源
词源 1
From Belgravia + -ian.
词源 2
From Belgravia + -ian.
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