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名詞

dressing-bell (複数形 dressing-bells)

1. A bell rung to alert people that it is time to get dressed, especially for dinner.
   • 1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter III, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], OCLC 3163777, page 78:

     The sound of the dressing-bell dispersed the party. It was not till after dinner that I saw him again: he then seemed quite at his ease.

   • 1868 January 4 – June 6, [William] Wilkie Collins, “First Period. The Loss of the Diamond (1848). […]”, in The Moonstone. A Romance. […], volume I, London: Tinsley Brothers, […], published 1868, OCLC 225036627, chapter VII, page 91:

     The evening came, and the dressing-bell for dinner rang, before Mr. Franklin returned from Frizinghall.