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beau brummel

/bruhm-uhl/US // ˈbrʌm əl //

布鲁梅尔

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : George Bryan Brummell, 1778–1840, an Englishman who set the fashion in men's clothes.
    • : an extremely or excessively well-dressed man; fop; dandy.
    • : a dressing table for men, having a variety of elaborate arrangements of mirrors, candle brackets, etc..

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Examples

  • Whatever the reason, Burton was committed enough to leave tiny Bunker Hill to seek out her beau.

  • But that just made Summer more enticing, an unobtainable Beau Ideal.

  • Kudos to the voters for nominating Allison Janney and Beau Bridges for the blistering guest turns, too.

  • People know Kurt Sutter and Vince Gilligan and Beau Willimon from House of Cards.

  • Beau Kilmer, co-director of the drug policy research center at RAND Corporation, calls the decision “extremely frustrating.”

  • Celuy-cy avoit souvent esvad le danger d'estre noy, et tout fraischement le beau jour de la Pentecoste dernire.

  • At least this is as far as my observation of him goes on the few occasions I have seen him in the beau monde.

  • A coquette is said to be an imperfect incarnation of Cupid, as she keeps her beau, and not her arrows, in a quiver.

  • Then he started, and suffered five suffocating minutes in the public sitting-room of the Beau Soleil.

  • A beau highwayman and a miserable chimney sweeper were to be hanged together at Newgate for their respective deserts.