释义 |
desight|diːˈsaɪt| [f. de- + sight; prob. orig. a variant of dessight, dissight, q.v.] A thing unsightly, an ugly object to look at, an eyesore. (But in the first quot. perhaps a misprint for despight.)
[1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie iii. xxiv. (Arb.) 292 [If he] come sodainly to be pold or shauen, it will seeme onely to himselfe, a deshight and very vndecent. ]1834G. Cox Oxford in 1834, v. 65 A splendid error and a grand desight, Grotesquely Gothic, blunderingly bright. 1852C. M. Yonge Cameos II. vi. 68 Three emeralds, three pearls, and one large rough pebble, which was such a desight to the others, that [etc.]. |