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单词 swartness
释义 swartness|ˈswɔːtnɪs|
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality of being swart; swarthiness, duskiness.
a1100Aldhelm Gloss. i. 4681 (Napier 121/1) Nigredine, sweartnysse.a1395Hylton Scala Perf. (W. de W. 1494) ii. xii, The swartnesse [1533 blackenes] that I haue is all wythoute.1530Palsgr. 278/1 Swartnesse, estalleure.1584B. R. tr. Herodotus ii. 75 The blacknesse and swartnesse of the people.1590P. Barrough Meth. Phisick iii. xix. (1639) 133 It chanceth sometime the face to be made very red..but this colour turneth againe into swartnesse.1823Scott Peveril xxvi, She..denounced the plague of swartness to the linen, of leanness to the poultry, of dearth and dishonour to the housekeeping.
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