"term" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- "To put it in quaint terms, XO, they sortied the fleet from Rio."
- The entire operation is overseen by the "ushers," a quaint term from the nineteenth century still used to describe the administrative staff.
- It's not just a formality or a quaint term.
- The avant-garde is a quaint term.
- Thereafter the action "snowballs," to use the quaint term theater people have for it, of its own inevitable momentum.
- "Distressed gentlefolk is a terribly quaint term in 1989," said Mr. Marshall, a former senior civil servant.
- It was an era when "handselling" was not just a quaint term to describe the practice of a salesman personally recommending a book to a customer.
- She thought the word chamber would be more appropriate, but she wasn't sure why such a quaint term came to mind.
- Nancy Boy, a quaint English term for an effeminate boy, has become the house band of the model set.
- The verses, which are slightly suggestive (by 1905 standards) and contain quaint terms for lovemaking, are seldom heard today.
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