| 释义 |
‖ rangé, a. Her.
[F., pa. pple. of ranger range v.1]
1. (See quots.)
1780Edmondson Compl. Body Her. II. Gloss., Range [sic] is a French term signifying many mullets, or other charges, placed in bend, saltire, fesse, cross etc. 1894Gough & Parker Gloss. Heraldry 489 Rangé, (fr.): arranged in a line.
2. Domesticated, orderly, regular, settled. Also in fem. form rangée.
1893A. Atkinson Let. 6 Feb. in F. Stark Traveller's Prelude (1950) ii. 29 He is stolider than ever and getting fat—looked terribly rangé and bourgeois. 1906W. De Morgan Joseph Vance xviii. 149 It [sc. a public house] is still the George the Fourth, but the gas-jets no longer sow wild oats of lamp-black—they are rangés. 1927Observer 17 July 14/3 Beckmesser (Bruce Anderson) displayed a fine voice,..and was amazingly quick on his legs for a tolerably rangé mastersinger. 1931Times Lit. Suppl. 29 Oct. 838/2 Experiences that left her mature, to enter, possibly, on the next stage of her life definitely rangée. 1934‘A. Bridge’ Ginger Griffin iv. 46 It's possible for girls to be too rangées. 1935Essays & Studies XX. 117 The best printers, whose spelling was far more rangé than that of even the most scholarly and learned writers. 1941‘R. West’ Black Lamb & Grey Falcon (1942) I. 195 That bias would make it very difficult for Slavs ever to settle down under a government, and lead a rangé political life. 1951R. F. Harrod Life of J. M. Keynes iii. 131 By comparison with Strachey he was rangé. 1952‘J. Tey’ Singing Sands v. 78 He listened..to the talk of the two fellow sheep-farmers... Nothing hounded these large rangé creatures. 1977A. Wilson Strange Ride vii. 334 Kipling was a..respected writer in France, particularly in rangé circles. |