英和和英

名詞

mongress (複数形 mongresses)

1. Alternative form of mongeress
   • 1889 July 2, Will Garland, “Congress. With Thanks to Gray’s Elegy For the Rythm^[sic] and No Apologies to Others For the Rhyme.”, in Santa Cruz Daily Sentinel‎^[1], volume XXXI, number 67, Santa Cruz, Calif.:

     And brooding let her sink to starless night, / Swifter than she sunk to a vote-mongress, / And on her grave this epitaph I’ll write—“Liberty: Sent here, poor girl, by Congress!”

   • 1920, The Mentor, page 14:

     […] her household in a spick and span condition free from dirt and scandal mongresses she is lost.

   • 1922 June 25, Guy Hickok, “The Real “La Belle Ferroniere””, in Brooklyn Daily Eagle, volume 82, number 175, New York, N.Y., page 4 E:

     The painting of which the disputed canvas is either the original or a copy has long been popularly known as “La Belle Ferroniere,” which translated literally means “The Beautiful Iron-mongress.”

   • 1958 March 19, James Thurber, “The Twilight Years”, in Harrison Kinney, editor, The Thurber Letters: The Wit, Wisdom, and Surprising Life of James Thurber, Simon & Schuster, published 2002, page 687:

     I am listing a dozen of them, without naming names, including the one about little old me, which was so wonderfully disproved when my daughter grew up in my veritable image, as Helen Gude once put it, and dismayed and disappointed what I call the New Yorker’s scandal[-]mongers and mongresses, the leading ones in the country.

   • 1969 March 19, Doris Reno, “A Stage Full of Top Voices in ‘Forza del Destino’”, in The Miami Herald, 59th year, number 109, page 8-B:

     Little Miss Jane Berbie, the war-mongress Preziosilla, sings well and with a fetching verse and she added the gaiety this heavy tragedy opera with its psychologically unreal thinking needs.

   • 1981 February 20, Lindsay Brown, “Worth Watching”, in TV Times (The Herald), page 26:

     Evita Peron at 10 (3) stars Faye Dunaway as the power-mongress in this autobiographical look at Juan Peron’s wife and political colleague.

   • 1996 February 24, “Valentine’s Day post-mortem: A special report”, in The Des Moines Register, Des Moines, Iowa, page 2A:

     Meanwhile, it seems marriage isn’t in the cards after all for New York Sen. Alfonse D’Amato and Live With Regis and Kathie Lee gossip-mongress Claudia Cohen.