bloomer: [19] Bloomers, long loose trousers worn by women, were not actually invented by someone called Bloomer – the credit for that seems to go to a Mrs Elizabeth Smith Miller of New York – but their first advocate was Amelia Jenks Bloomer (1818–94), a US feminist who strongly promoted their use in the early 1850s as a liberated garment for women. The extent to which this became a cause célèbre can be gauged by the fact that it gave rise to so-called Bloomerism, a movement for ‘rationalizing’ women’s dress; in 1882 Lady Harberton wrote in Macmillan’s Magazine ‘“Bloomerism” still lurks in many a memory’. Bloomer ‘mistake’ is late 19th-century, and apparently originally Australian.
Early commentators derived it, not altogether convincingly, from ‘blooming error’.
bloomer (n.)
1730, agent noun from bloom (v.).
实用例句
1. She was a late bloomer.
她大器晚成.
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2. But like any late bloomer, I was eager to make up for lost time.
不过就象所有开窍晚的人一样, 我渴望能找回失去的时间.
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3. The result of this step is formal Bloomer learning test Chinese version.
试测结果获得了布鲁默学习测验中文版新版的正式测题.
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4. Murakami was a bloomer, writing his first work at age 29.
村上春树大器晚成, 29岁才写他的第一部作品.
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5. Without Old Huang, Linlin could not have been an early bloomer.
