petit maître

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A fop or dandy. archaic
    — The unfortunate petit maitre, driven to the extremity of his condescension, acknowledged it to be a masterly refinement […].
  2. A lesser master of something, especially of some artistic skill; a minor talent. derogatory
    — Monstrous critical overkill of an even more up-market kind has transformed the Argentinian petit maître, Borges, into one of the Great Writers of our Time and his most recent collection, The Book of Sand […] shows signs that he is content humbly to acquiesce in this opinion.

词形变化

petits maîtres plural

词源

From French petit-maître.
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