单词 | link-boy |
释义 | ˈlink-boy [link n.3] A boy employed to carry a link to light passengers along the streets.
1660Pepys Diary 4 Feb., Thence to Sir Harry Wright's, and after that with a link-boy home. 1716Gay Trivia iii. 114 Nor need th' officious Link-Boy's smoaky Light. 1739J. Mottley Joe Miller's Jests No. 239 A Link-Boy cry'd, Have a Light, Gentlemen? 1837Dickens Pickw. xxxvi, The red glare of the link-boy's torch. 1854Thackeray Newcomes I. xvii. 161 Link-boys with their torches lighted the beaux over the mud. fig.1698Farquhar Love & Bottle iii. i, This is the page, love's link-boy, that must light me the way. |

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