exoduster
名词 n.
英 /ˈɛksəʊdʌstə/
美 /ˈɛksoʊˌdʌstəɹ/
英文释义
名词 n.
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An African-American who migrated from a state along the Mississippi River in the Southern United States to Kansas, mostly between 1879 and 1881 during the Reconstruction era.
— Ingalls [John James Ingalls?] wants congress to appropriate money for the colored exodusters. It strikes us that for a man who is holding on by a strip of his eye-brow, Ingalls is a little too unanimous.
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词源
From Exodus (“departure of the Hebrew slaves from Egypt recorded in the Bible”), exodus (“sudden departure of a large number of people”) + -ster (suffix denoting someone who is, is associated with, or does a specified thing) (see the 1899 quotation), alluding to the story of the exodus of Israelites from Egypt which is related in the Book of Exodus in the Bible.
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