| 釋義 |
carpet-mongern. (term of contempt) carpet-knight.frequenter of drawing-rooms,i. e. knight whose val-orous deeds were done not on the battlefield but in ladies drawing-rooms（蔑稱）蹭地毯的騎士，客廳騎士，指那種不會打仗，只會在貴婦客廳中混的騎士。
△Ado.5.2.32:“awhole bookful of these quondam carpet-mongers，” 那一大批寫在書上的古代的花花公子們。 |