释义 |
ˈwater-flag The yellow flag or flower-de-luce, Iris Pseudacorus.
1578Lyte Dodoens ii. xli. 199 The wilde yellow Iris is nowe called..in Englishe..Wilde flagges, water flagges, and Lauers. 1650[W. Howe] Phytol. Brit. 2 Yallow water flower-de-luce, water flagges, Seggs. 1808Scott Marm. vi. xxxvii, And shepherd boys repair To seek the water-flag and rush. 1842Tennyson Morte d'Arthur 63 The many⁓knotted waterflags, That whistled stiff and dry about the marge. 1847C. Brontë J. Eyre xxi, A group of reeds and water-flags. |