英语词汇dundrearies的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	dundrearies
词源	dundrearies. Long silky whiskers drooping in strands from both cheeks were high fashion during the 1860s and after. They are named for Lord Dundreary, the witless indolent chief char- acter who sported such whiskers in English dramatist Tom Taylor’s play Our American Cousin (1858). Abraham Lincoln was watching the play at Ford’s Theatre on the night he was assassinated.
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