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Mrs. Leo Hunter
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Name of a character in Charles Dickens' novel The Pickwick Papers (1836), intended to suggest a "lion hunter"; see lion (“a famous person regarded with interest かつ curiosity”).
名詞
Mrs. Leo Hunter (複数形 Mrs. Leo Hunters)
- (dated) A woman who seeks to cultivate the company of famous and interesting people.
- 1834, Mary Elizabeth Wilson Sherwood, Etiquette, the American Code of Manners:
- The third danger is, that she accepts, in lieu of the best acquaintances, second and third rate people, the hangers-on upon society, people who have not the best or freshest reputation—the Mrs. Leo Hunters, the Misses Bore and the Messrs. Fraudulent, who are a large family.
Mrs Leo Hunter
語源
Name of a character in Charles Dickens' novel The Pickwick Papers (1836), intended to suggest a lion-hunter; see lion (“a famous person regarded with interest かつ curiosity”).
名詞
Mrs Leo Hunter (複数形 Mrs Leo Hunters)
- (dated) A woman who seeks to cultivate the company of famous and interesting people.
- 1834, Mary Elizabeth Wilson Sherwood, Etiquette, the American Code of Manners
- The third danger is, that she accepts, in lieu of the best acquaintances, second and third rate people, the hangers-on upon society, people who have not the best or freshest reputation—the Mrs. Leo Hunters, the Misses Bore and the Messrs. Fraudulent, who are a large family.
- 1840, The Quarterly Review (volume 65, page 266)
- 1917, John Hutton Balfour Browne, Recollections Literary and Political (page 55)
- I will not say a word against a Mrs. Leo Hunter who lived in H Street, and who every Sunday evening filled her drawing-rooms with every notable person she could lay her hands on. Her house was on these occasions a museum of notorieties. Distinction of any sort was an introduction to her hospitalities.
- 1940, Wyndham Lewis, America, I Presume (page 175)
- 1834, Mary Elizabeth Wilson Sherwood, Etiquette, the American Code of Manners
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