| 单词 | extravaganza |
| 释义 | extravaganza|ɛkˌstrævəˈgænzə|
[ad. It. estravaganza (an) extravagance (more commonly stravaganza), refashioned after L. extra-.]
1. A composition, literary, musical or dramatic, of an extravagant or fantastic character.
1794Mathias Purs. Lit. (1798) 343 Author of the pleasant Extravaganza on the Courage of Sir John Falstaff. 1815W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 20 note, A portion of the extravaganza of that writer's Curse of Kehama. 1833J. R. Planché Extravaganzas (1879) I. 115 High, Low, Jack, and the Game..a most extravagant Extravaganza. 1873M. Arnold Lit. & Dogma xii. §3. 372 The difference between the grandeur of an extravaganza and the grandeur of the sea or the sky. 1879Hullah in Grove Dict. Mus. I. 499/2 A musical extravaganza must be the work of a musician familiar with the forms he caricatures.
2. What resembles an extravaganza; bombastic extravagance of language or behaviour.
1754Connoisseur 7 Mar. 31 Thalia..was..with difficulty restrained from falling into ridiculous drolleries, and what our author calls extravaganzas in her manner. 1789Belsham Ess. II. xxxvi. 289 The inchantment of Tasso borders upon the extravaganza. 1831Scott Nigel Introd., Bardolph, Nym, Pistol..men who had their humours, or their particular turn of extravaganza.
3. nonce-use. An ‘extravagance’ in dress.
1860Heads & Hats 31 Send hoops, crinoline, and all extravaganzas to those bonfires in which we are wont to consume our Guys of every description.
Hence extravaˈganzist, an extravaganza writer.
a1849Poe Marginalia Wks. 1864 III. 538 That..school of extravaganzists who sprang from the ruins of Lamb. |
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