英语词汇spit curl的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

spit curl. The spit curl was a new and daring fashion in 1831: a short curl of a woman’s hair plastered to her forehead with a little spit. In 1883 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow dubbed such curls “spite curls,” a designation not much heard anymore, after he wrote the still popular poem “There Was a Little Girl” for Blanche Roosevelt and she refused to learn how to pronounce the word “forehead” mentioned in the poem. The “little curl” in the poem is a spit curl Blanche Roosevelt wore:

词汇	spit curl
词源	spit curl. The spit curl was a new and daring fashion in 1831: a short curl of a woman’s hair plastered to her forehead with a little spit. In 1883 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow dubbed such curls “spite curls,” a designation not much heard anymore, after he wrote the still popular poem “There Was a Little Girl” for Blanche Roosevelt and she refused to learn how to pronounce the word “forehead” mentioned in the poem. The “little curl” in the poem is a spit curl Blanche Roosevelt wore: There was a little girl Who had a little curl Right in the middle of her forehead, When she was good She was very, very good, But when she was bad, She was horrid.
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