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单词 frawn
释义 frawn|frɔːn|
Also 8 fraghan, 9 frauchan, fraun, frughan; 9– fraughan.
[a. Ir. fraochan.]
The Irish popular name of the bilberry.
1726C. Threlkeld Synopsis Stirp. Hibern., Vaccinia nigra vulgaria..They grow in wet boggy Ground..the poor Women gather them in Autumn and cry them about the streets of Dublin by the Name of Fraghan.1859W. S. Coleman Woodlands (1862) 92 By the Irish they [Bilberries] are called ‘Frawns’.1869P. Kennedy Evenings on Duffrey xix. 208 They might..gather..fraughans in the woods.1878Britten & Holland Plant-n. s.v., Frughans, Vaccinium Myrtillus..The old Irish name.1892J. Barlow Bog-Land Studies 69 Wee frauns.1906Temple Bar June 553 They trod the heather and fraughan beneath them.1914‘G. A. Birmingham’ Lost Tribes xi, Under their shelter fraughan bushes nestled, their black fruit already ripening.
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