Wardour-street的意思

Wardour-street

基本解释

adj.

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英文词源

Wardour-street (n.): "affected pseudo-archaic diction of historical novels," 1888, from street in London lined with shops selling imitation-antique furniture.
This is not literary English of any date; this is Wardour-Street Early English -- a perfectly modern article with a sham appearance of the real antique about it. [A. Ballantyne, "Wardour-Street English," Longman's Magazine, October, 1888]

实用例句

1. Wardour is Gothic ruins.: 洼都堡是哥特式的古代建筑.

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