| 单词 |
pantine |
| 释义 |
† ˈpantine Obs.
Also pantein, -een, -in.
[In F. pantin, formerly pantine (‘une jatte de Saxe, une pantine de Boucher’, Diderot Promenade du Sceptique, 1747–9), which some French etymologists have referred to Pantin a village near Paris; but see quot. 1748.]
A pasteboard figure of a human being, having the neck, body, and limbs jointed, so as to move when pulled by a thread or wire: a fashionable toy in the middle of the 18th c.
1748Lond. Mag. 271 The ridiculous folly of Panteins [note. Paper or pastboard puppets, contriv'd to move in all postures, so call'd from mademoiselle Pantein, one of the marshal Saxe's [ob. 1750] ladies, who is said to be the inventer]. 1749Mrs. Delany Life & Corr. (1861) II. 505 She has begun and almost finished..a set of pantines. 1754J. Shebbeare Matrimony (1766) II. 75 She resembled a Pantine, and wanted nothing but a Whalebone in her Head to give her a Twirl, and flirt her two long Arms into Motion. 1790Bystander 174 Edwin is as much of an actor as a panteen is of a puppet. [1881Besant & Rice Chapl. of Fleet ii. v, Pantines, a ridiculous fashion of paper doll then in vogue as a toy for ladies with nothing to do.] |
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