curtain lecture

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A scolding given by a wife to her husband in bed.
    — I have pawn'd already her Tuftaffaty Peticote and all her Child-bed linnen, besides two tiffiny Aprons, and her bearing-cloth, for which I have had already two curtaine Lectures, and a black and blue eye.

词形变化

curtain lectures plural

词源

An allusion to the curtains that hung around old-fashioned beds.
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