| 单词 | voyant |
| 释义 | ▪ I. ‖ voyant, a.|vwajɑ̃|
Fem. voyante |-ɑ̃t|.
[Fr.]
Showy, gaudy, flashy; spec. of clothes, appearance, etc.
1906Punch 18 Apr. 286/3 ‘Anno Domini’..whom one would expect to be smart and voyante, is simply the dowdiest, quietest of mice. 1927U. M. Lyon Etiquette x. 113 Anything voyant in ties, deplorable always, is doubly so at his wedding. 1937G. Frankau More of Us xv. 162 Tactful then mentioned he, maybe the hat—The whole costume indeed—was ‘rather voyant’. ‘Looks the complete tart if it comes to that’, Hissed Innocent.
▪ II. ‖ voyant, n.
[Fr., lit. ‘seer’.]
A visionary; one gifted with an especial degree of mental perception.
[1924E. Rickword tr. A. Rimbaud in Rimbaud: Boy & Poet 203, I say that one must be a visionary (voyant), make oneself a visionary. The Poet makes himself a visionary by a long immense and reasoned derangement of all the senses.] 1938Times Lit. Suppl. 21 May 353/2 The systematic derangement of all the senses that he [sc. Rimbaud] envisaged as one of the duties of the voyant or visionary poet has been attempted. 1958Spectator 22 Aug. 257/3 The emblem of this evil society is the head of a dead pig..animated by flies and by the imagination of the voyant, Simon. 1972E. Lucie-Smith in Cox & Dyson 20th-Cent. Mind II. xiv. 483 A way of linking Dada to an older and more specifically French tradition, that of the voyant, which could be traced to nineteenth-century writers such as Rimbaud and Lautréamont. |
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