Jolly set?
Hello everybody.
I am reading a novel named' Little Women'. It is full of words I can't find their meaning out. For example' We are a pretty jolly set." What does it mean? Or ' I planned to spend my money in new music.' What does music mean here?
What do sweet mouth and decided mouth mean?
Thanks so much for the help
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" What does it mean? Alcott wrote this around 1870. The mists of time have closed over it to some extent, and I imagine that scholars disagree.
- " What does it mean?
- Alcott wrote this around 1870.
- The mists of time have closed over it to some extent, and I imagine that scholars disagree.
- The word "set" has the longest entry in the dictionary, and Alcott used it advisedly here, which is revealed in the next line where she calls "pretty jolly set" "slang words".
- I interpret this "set" as the one in the more modern term "jet set", a coterie.
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We are a pretty jolly set." What does it mean?
Alcott wrote this around 1870. The mists of time have closed over it to some extent, and I imagine that scholars disagree. The word "set" has the longest entry in the dictionary, and Alcott used it advisedly here, which is revealed in the next line where she calls "pretty jolly set" "slang words". I interpret th
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