Notes of a word-watcher, Hanching Chung. A first port of call for English learning.
2024年11月19日 星期二
bread line/breadline, backfire, lineal, ancestry, lineage. On the door leading to the company’s atelier is a family tree tracing Cadolle’s lineage from its founder to its current chief executives.Credit...
White Angel Breadline, San Francisco, 1933 by Dorothea Lange.
Poverty and racial marginalization, internment camps, and life during wartime — these are among the most famous themes documentary photographer Dorothea Lange chronicled in her groundbreaking 20th century career.
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Long Bread Lines and Barricades in Libya’s Capital
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An effort by Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi to prove that he was in control appeared to backfire as foreign journalists he invited in discovered open defiance.
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Cadolle’s lingerie can be made in myriad colors. Americans prefer black and nude; French customers favor more vibrant shades.Credit...Lucie Cipolla for The New York Times
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On the door leading to the company’s atelier is a family tree tracing Cadolle’s lineage from its founder to its current chief executives.Credit...Lucie Cipolla for The New York Times
I do not say that we are reduced to the breadline, but the allowance no longer covers the use of the charter flights.
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Most of the people who would benefit—though not all—from the £2¼ billion back in their pockets would spend it, because they are living on the breadline.
[Middle English auncestrie, alteration (influenced by auncestre) of Old French ancesserie, from ancessour, ancestor, from Latin antecessor. See ancestor.]
lineal
(adjective) In a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child.
Synonyms:
direct
Usage:
Du Bois, the present librarian of Ardis, is a lineal descendant of this revolutionary pair.
breadline
also bread line(brĕd'līn') n.
A line of people waiting to receive food given by a charitable organization or public agency.
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